Ryan Gosling is the January cover boy for GQ Magazine. GOSDONG!!! I know many of you are over him now that he’s slipping The Gosdong to Blake Lively, but I still have some affection for him. He got a Golden Globe nomination this morning too – and maybe he’ll even bring Blake as his date!!! Good times. Anyway, GQ has only released a few select excerpts from their cover interview. Also: Gosling took his GQ interviewer to Disneyland. At this point, the boy has a Disney fetish, he really does. Once, even twice if your name appears with “Magic Castle” I’ll let it go – but we’re going on at least a half dozen Gosling-Disneyland references in a year. Enough. Here are the highlights:

“The path of the Reluctant Movie Star has been well worn at least since Brando, but few have walked it as doggedly and resolutely as Gosling,” writes GQ correspondent Brett Martin. All of Ryan Gosling’s roles, with the exception of The Notebook, have been “small, odd, and metaphysically mysterious.” Even his two latest movies, All Good Things and Blue Valentine, “do little to alter the perception that he will only do those things that appeal to his own, confident sense of what’s worth doing.”

The two spent time together at some of Gosling’s favorite L.A. spots, including the Magic Castle and The Varnish, discussing family (he comes from a “family of believers”) and his various jobs outside of acting (including working at a local deli). Gosling says his latest film (with rumblings of an Oscar nod), Blue Valentine, is the best he’ll ever make.

Ryan Gosling on his family’s willful suspension of disbelief:
“My mother still believes in Santa Claus. We tried to break it to her once, but she wasn’t having it. There are very few believers in the world, but my mother is one of them. I don’t know if she’d admit that this is why she does it, but it’s just more fun to believe in Santa than not to.”

…on why he got a job at a deli after his Hollywood hit, The Notebook:
“ ‘I’d never had a real job,’ he says. The problem with Hollywood, he goes on, is that nobody works. ‘They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it’s not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.’ ”

…on expecting retribution from his success:
“Look, this is crazy. I don’t understand how I’m here, living this life, wearing this suit. I assume I’m going to pay for it someday…. And that’s okay. It seems fair to me. I just want to be ready for it. I want to meet it like a gentleman.”

[From GQ]

You know who Gosling reminds me of a little bit? Shia LaBeouf. It’s like there’s some sort of desire – in both Gosling and Shia – to come across as somewhat creepy/weird, just in attempt to be different. And I hate to say it, but I think Shia does it with more authenticity, you know? Shia seems genuinely creepy and weird. Gosling seems like he’s trying too hard.

The full Gosling pictorial is here, at GQ.

Photos courtesy of GQ.