I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

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.

Every pain is a lesson.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.