1. He was cast in The Notebook because the director thought he wasn't cool or good-looking.

2. For real. This is what happened when Ryan met the director of The Notebook: "When I got there, he was standing in his backyard, and he looked at me and said, 'I want you to play this role because you're not like the other young actors out there in Hollywood. You're not handsome, you're not cool, you're just a regular guy who looks a bit nuts.'"

3. He once bought out an entire Girl Scout Cookie stand and handed them out to people on the street.

4. When he was a kid, Ryan filled a Fisher-Price Magic kit with steak knives, brought them to school, and threw them at kids at recess.

5. Ryan Gosling was supposed to play the lead in The Lovely Bones but was fired when he showed up on set weighing 210 pounds. He was cast when he weighed 150 pounds.

6. To gain all that weight he would melt Haagen Dazs and drink it when he was thirsty.

7. When he was a kid, he could do an absolutely epic rendition of "Everybody Dance Now."