"And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor."

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"And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor."

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"I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much."

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"If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?"

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"I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me."

People

"I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place."

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"I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto."

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"I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work."

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"I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically."

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"I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder."

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"Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging."

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