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As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you’re worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.
I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It’s entirely driven by the entertainment business and that’s what it is.
Everything about Canada makes me proud to be Canadian.
I come from a very blue-collar family, and a very hardworking family, and I think that my work ethic is maybe the thing that kept me on the straight and narrow.
Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.
I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, ‘I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.’
I love a Coffee Crisp, and they are nowhere to be found in America.
Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don’t do it to yourself.
That’s the power of television. You come into people’s homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
By the time I graduated from high school in Vancouver, I already had a whole support network set up for me in Los Angeles, so I just moved down.
I’m definitely not a song-and-dance guy, and if you’ve ever heard me sing, you would understand that, ‘No, maybe that’s not your thing.’
Any time you get to do a David Mamet play, it’s a great opportunity. His writing is such that I think it’s a big challenge, but when you get it right, it’s a great opportunity to play every night, really.
Dave Foley and I have been friends for a very long time. We both actually have the same lawyer in Toronto.
I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.
Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I’m indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It’s all titanium.
When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.
I think it’s great now that we seem to be in an era where it’s OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.
From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
I never exceed the posted speed limit.
When you say ‘90210,’ everyone knows what you’re talking about. So why not make use of that? And they certainly have. I think the show looks beautiful, and all the actors are doing a great job. It’s a tangled web they’ve created thus far. It’s great.
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.
I’m very happy to be directing though. It’s a challenge, and it’s a lot of fun for me to be on set.
Theatre was the first thing I fell in love with.
I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people – in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is – the sooner it will stop.
You never appreciate your anonymity until you don’t have it anymore.
I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
Well, any time you’re faced with fame on that level, it’s – it can be somewhat unnerving because you’re never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you’re sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.
It’s a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.
I love filming in Britain.