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.

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.

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.

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

Drink wine, not labels.

I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

A good laugh is the best pesticide.