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.

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.

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.

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

I think one of the sexiest things a couple can share is laughing.

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

My last thought in the night end with you and my morning smile is caused by your thought. I wonder if ever life would be so special without your love.

What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.

I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.