I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.

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.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

What nature creates has eternity in it.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.