Gosling: "I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is."

Gosling: "I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to."

Gosling: "There's something messed up with my brain."

Gosling: "I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world."

Gosling: "Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on."

Gosling: "I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it."

Gosling: "I'm just sort of making it up as I go along."

Gosling: "I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life."

Gosling: "I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life."

Gosling: "All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me."

Gosling: "You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide."

Gosling: "It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor."

Gosling: "Freedom is such a gift."

Gosling: "I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it."

Gosling: "I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does."

Gosling: "I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."

Gosling: "Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want."