top of page
Quotes by Actor

"Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others."

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

"We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second."

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."


"I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics."

"I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one."

"I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez."
Mail,

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."

"I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney."

"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."

"I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me."

"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."


"I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to."

"And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing."

"I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are."

"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

"In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes."

"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."

"A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman."

"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."

"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."


"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."

"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."

"Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister."
bottom of page