Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

A SWOT analysis involves asking, "What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.

Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.

Without music I should wish to die.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness

If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.