Canadian Quotes

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

Everything has an end.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.