The Most Adorable Things Ryan Reynolds Has Said About Blake Lively

"You're spectacular" and more of the actor's sweet musings on his wife of 10 years

ON HER AURA

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"Happy Birthday, @blakelively. You're spectacular. I'm not sure if you were born or invented."
— in his 35th birthday tribute on Instagram

ON WHAT HE LEARNS FROM HER

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"She always responds with empathy. She meets anger with empathy. She meets hate with empathy. She'll take the time to imagine what happened to a person when they were 5 or 6 years old. And she's made me a more empathetic person. I had a very fractured relationship with my father. Before he died, she made me remember things I didn't want to remember. She made me remember the good times."
— on Humans of New York

ON HOW THEIR RELATIONSHIP GREW AFTER BECOMING PARENTS

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"I'm not one for vomiting declarations of sentiment out across the airwaves, but when we had that baby, I fell more in love with my wife than I'd ever been in my entire life. I couldn't even believe it."
– on The Late Show with David Letterman

ON WHERE HIS MOTIVATION COMES FROM

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"I want to thank my wife, Blake. Everything I do is to make her laugh, especially the sex."
– while accepting the statue for best comedic performance at the MTV Movie Awards

ON BLAKE'S DOMESTIC TOUCH

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"I have such a respect for those who have a true architectural-design talent, and my wife has that superpower."
– to PEOPLE

ON HER TIRELESS PARENTING

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"I'm just a diaper-changing facility hooked up to a life-support system, but my wife, she's breakfast, lunch and dinner. She's a human Denny's all day long … and it never ends for her. She's the most beautiful Denny's you've ever seen though, I guarantee it."
– on The Late Show with David Letterman

ON HER SENSE OF HUMOR

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"My wife is the real, I mean she is a mercenary. At one point in the middle of the delivery, the doctor's cell phone went off and she said, 'Oh, no. Go ahead, take a personal call. Feel free.' She was cracking jokes in the delivery room."
– on Conan

ON HER RED CARPET SKILLS

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"My wife knows how to work a red carpet, I'll say that. Yeah, she might be the Beyoncé of red carpets. She's turned that into an athletic event."
– to AOL BUILD

ON THEIR PRE-RELATIONSHIP 'FIREWORKS'

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"About a year after Green Lantern had come and gone and we were both single we went on a double date – [Blake] was on a date with another guy and I was on a date with another girl – and it was like the most awkward date for the respective parties because we were just like fireworks coming across … We were buddies for a long time, which I think is the best way to have a relationship, to start as friends."
– on Entertainment Weekly's SiriusXM Deadpool special

ON ALWAYS BEING EAGER TO SEE HER AND DAUGHTER JAMES

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"When I wrapped Deadpool five weeks ago, within an hour – I'm not joking, I still had chunks of glue from the scar makeup on my face – I was boarding a plane to Bangkok so I could get to my wife and baby right away."
– to AOL BUILD