I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

I like to go out and see what a city's all about.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Love a man who'll bleed to make a point. (Candy)

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.