I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

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.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)