No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Some of us are busy doing things

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.

There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the colour of my skin.