I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

I try to keep my private life private.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

Naughtiness is a diamond of childhood.

I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

My mother is a beauty.

The fans are probably the only thing I can really see that's real.

I didnt quit movies. They quit me.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of political forces play a roll.