M.C. Steve Quotes

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

I detest those who deceive me.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

When I was told my team was lucky to win, I replied: "the more we practice, the luckier we get."

Kill the ones that eat us. Eat the ones we kill

If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.

When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

It eats at me. And if it eats at me, I'm going to make sure it eats at (my team).

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I was on Days Of Our Lives for about three months.

I'm not really a morning person.

You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.