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"My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian."
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"Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers."
"When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials."
"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?""
"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."
"I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada."
"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
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"Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them."
"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
"I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter."
"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."
"When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe."
"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."
"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."
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