Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

I don't think you're dying, " I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

It's a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.