Meg Ryan Net Worth

Meg Ryan's Quotes

• People say that chivalry is dead, I don't think that it's dead, I think it's just got the 'flu!
• [commenting on the nudity and sex in In the Cut (2003)] You don't go, 'Wow! I get to do a nude scene.' But I love the sex scene in this movie. It was scary, honest and raw. But people could find my body very unattractive. There could be a backlash against it.
• The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. Definitely.
• 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. 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.
• [in 2008 on why she hadn't been working very much recently] I've been famous since I was a teenager. There are a lot of empty spaces in that. I just feel like I've been filling in the cracks a little bit. I feel very fortunate, very free.

Interesting Facts about Meg Ryan

1. In 1979, she graduated from Bethel High School and was Prom Queen.
2. In June 1999, ranked #57 in Premiere (USA) magazine's "The 100 Most Powerful People in Hollywood" list.
3. In 1998, she was ranked #59 on Entertainment Weekly's most powerful people in Hollywood.
4. In April 1998, she was voted most favorite female movie star by the readers and online users of the "People Weekly Magazine".
5. In October 1997, she was ranked #94 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
6. She began Prufrock Pictures in 1994. Then in 2000, Prufrock Pictures was shut down.
7. She met actor Anthony Edwards during the making of the film Top Gun (1986) and moved in with him. They were a couple until she met actor Dennis Quaid during the film Innerspace (1987), and she moved in with and eventually married him. Both actors portrayed military fighter pilots in their respective roles. Had she been chosen for the role of Robin Monroe in Six Days Seven Nights (1998), that would have made the third time she'd have played a character involved with a pilot, albeit not a military pilot.
8. She turned down the Nicole Kidman role in To Die For (1995).
9. "Meg Ryan" is an anagram of "Germany". When she registered with the Screen Actors Guild as a teenager, Meg used her maternal grandmother's maiden name, "Ryan", as her stage surname.
10. She was born at 10:08 AM EST.
11. Savage Garden's song, "All Around Me", was written about her, inspired by a crush from Daniel Jones, the band's composer.
12. On 4 February 2002, a Los Angeles judge granted a restraining order against John Michael Hughes, a 40 year old real estate agent who had been hanging around Ryan's home claiming to be her fiancee.
13. She was a member of the jury at the Festival International de Cannes in 2003.
14. She took three weeks of boxing lessons, to prepare for her role in Against the Ropes (2004); Ryan wanted to understand the sport, and the terms her character would use.
15. She shared a Los Angeles house with Daphne Zuniga when both were struggling actresses.
16. She lost the lead role in Washington Square (1997) to Jennifer Jason Leigh.
17. She and her good friend Tom Hanks have been co-stars in three movies as love interests: Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and You've Got Mail (1998).
18. She did several national commercials as a teenager for Barbie and other products.
19. She was voted "cutest" girl in school, class secretary, and homecoming queen in her senior year of high school.
20. A famous haircut by Sally Hershberger was named "Meg" in honor of Ryan, since she was the first one to have it.