top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Canadian Authors
"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well."
"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."
"I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat."
"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."
"Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point."
"Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality."
"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."
"In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care."
"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."
"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit."
"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
"Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think."
"It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy."
"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
"Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys."
"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."
"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."
"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
"I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say."
"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."
"Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it."
"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
"Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly."
"I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again."
"You have more issues than Reader's Digest."
"I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else."
bottom of page