Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself.

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

I love filming in Britain.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set.

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families.