Celebrity Celebrity Relationships Celebrity Married Life 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 By Lydia Price Lydia Price Lydia Price is a former platforms editor at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2022. People Editorial Guidelines Updated on August 25, 2022 03:10PM EDT Close 01 of 10 ON HER AURA Ryan Reynolds Instagram "Happy Birthday, @blakelively. You're spectacular. I'm not sure if you were born or invented."— in his 35th birthday tribute on Instagram 02 of 10 ON WHAT HE LEARNS FROM HER Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty "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 03 of 10 ON HOW THEIR RELATIONSHIP GREW AFTER BECOMING PARENTS Charles Sykes/Invision/AP "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 04 of 10 ON WHERE HIS MOTIVATION COMES FROM Nicholas Hunt/Getty "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 05 of 10 ON BLAKE'S DOMESTIC TOUCH Ron Sachs/Pool/Getty "I have such a respect for those who have a true architectural-design talent, and my wife has that superpower."– to PEOPLE 06 of 10 ON HER TIRELESS PARENTING MediaPunch/REX Shutterstock "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 07 of 10 ON HER SENSE OF HUMOR Source: Blake Lively/Instagram "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 08 of 10 ON HER RED CARPET SKILLS Michael Loccisano/Getty "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 09 of 10 ON THEIR PRE-RELATIONSHIP 'FIREWORKS' Mario Anzuoni/Reuters/Landov "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 10 of 10 ON ALWAYS BEING EAGER TO SEE HER AND DAUGHTER JAMES Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup "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