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Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra (born November 19, 1961), professionally known as Meg Ryan, is an American actress and producer. Raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, Ryan began her acting career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982. Subsequently, she began to appear in supporting roles in big screen films during the mid-1980s, achieving recognition in several independent films such as Promised Land (1987), before her performance in the Rob Reiner-directed cult comedy When Harry Met Sally... (1989) brought her widespread attention and her first Golden Globe nomination.

In the 1990s, Ryan starred in a string of popular romantic dramas and comedy films, including Sleepless in Seattle (1993), French Kiss (1995), Addicted to Love (1997), City of Angels (1998), and You've Got Mail (1998), whose total gross was over $870 million worldwide. At that time, Time critic Richard Corliss called her "the current soul of romantic comedy." In addition to these romantic comedy roles, she garnered critical acclaim for her work in When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), in which she played an alcoholic, and in Courage Under Fire (1996), portraying a captain in the Gulf War.

Ryan has two children: Jack, from her marriage to actor Dennis Quaid, and Daisy, whom she adopted from China. Meg and her children moved to New York City, New York in the summer of 2010.

Ryan married actor Dennis Quaid on Valentine's Day 1991, after starring in two films with him. Ryan agreed to marry him only after he kicked his cocaine addiction. Quaid and Ryan had one child together, Jack Henry, born on April 24, 1992. The couple separated in 2000, and their divorce became final on July 16, 2001. In September 2008, Ryan revealed Quaid had been unfaithful to her for a long time while they were married.

Meg Ryan had a relationship with actor Russell Crowe for a few months in 2000 after she and her ex-husband Dennis Quaid separated; however, the relationship did not last.

In January 2006, Ryan adopted a 14-month-old girl from China named Daisy True.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
Meg Ryan

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
Meg Ryan

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
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And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
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Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
Meg Ryan

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
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I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.
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I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.
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I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
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I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
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I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
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I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.
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I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.
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I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.
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I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.
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It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
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It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
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Motherhood change me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
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My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.
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Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.
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