I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it’s cute.

Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.