Top 70 Montreal Quotes

I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.

I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.

In Montreal, there is a friend of mine at school who is a jazz pianist with an amazing voice, and we sort of have this fusion/soul/R&B/folk music kind of thing. We’ve been keeping it low-key and opening for some friends.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

In America there’s lot of cool cities, but in Canada there’s, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they’re so expensive. Montreal is the only city that’s affordable but also has buses and culture.

You’re not just playing for one city in Toronto, you’re playing for Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton.

I think over there in Montreal they’re a bit hardcore with the old homos. They’re not that keen on them.

There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there’s not, so it’s really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

French girls, especially those from Montreal, are known to be the most beautiful women in the world.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

In Montreal, I kept thinking, ‘Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!’

It’s hard at times, but other times it’s the most fun you’re going to have I think in the entire NHL is playing well in Montreal. There’s nothing that compares to it.

The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.

My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.

Early in my career when I was with Montreal, we had a lot of good outfielders like Otis Nixon, myself, Marquis Grissom and Larry Walker. We all did the platooning thing, although each one of us could have played every day. We got everybody in the lineup, and everybody got to play.

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren’t laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

No, I love Montreal… I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me… I love the food there.

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

I haven’t seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities.

If you’re big in Montreal, you’re big in Quebec. If you’re big in Toronto, you’re big in Canada. But if you’re big in New York, you’re big in the rest of the world.

The Montreal Canadiens have been a big part of my family.

Sometimes, in the summer, I just step out of my home, and I see all these people – Montreal is like El Dorado. It doesn’t exist. It’s so perfect and beautiful and multicultural and chill and fun.

For every stand-up comedian, Just for Laughs is our Super Bowl. Every comic in the world goes to Just for Laughs in Montreal. And they presented me with the Stand-Up Comedian of the Year award for 2018. This is my Oscar; this is my Emmy. That’s my baby now.

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

You know what’s nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

‘Mars et Avril’ is a science fiction film. It’s set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it’s expensive, it’s set in the future, and it’s got tons of visual effects, and it’s shot on green screen.

I grew up a Montreal Canadiens fan.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

I haven’t been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It’s been a while.

Montreal bagels are much better than U.S. bagels, because there’s a sweetness to the dough, and there’s a pull. New York bagels are basically bread in the shape of a bagel.

Montreal is a great town. There’s equal parts blue-collar town.

I didn’t really have an idea that Montreal was a possibility. They were pretty tough at the combine, I remember that. It was definitely the toughest interview that I had.

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn’t happen very often.

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A… but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It’s home.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty’s, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It’s legendary!

During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn’t question their motives.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

I’ve wrestled in front of great crowds in Montreal, and I’ve wrestled absolutely terrible crowds where you’re in front of, like, 200 people.

You know, I’m a free market politician and I think I’m the only one who worked for think-tanks like the Montreal Economic Institute.

I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in ‘The Golden Age’ while preparing to start shooting ‘I’m Not There.’ I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.

Montreal is my home town – I love it to death – but Toronto, I think, might have to be the best market in Canada. From a numbers perspective, it definitely is. The fans are incredible, and every time we go there, it sells out. It’s awesome, and the fans are incredible.

As a kid growing up in Montreal, I wanted to become either a hockey player or a wrestler. Since my family didn’t have a lot of money, my parents never put me in a hockey league because it was so expensive.

I’m a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I’m usually sick when I’m there.

You never know what’s going to happen the rest of the way. You can’t predict. You don’t know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don’t know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

It would be a great honor. I’d love to be the captain of the Montreal Canadiens.

I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser’s, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do… it’s weird, non?

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Montreal is not what I’m used to. I’m used to big mountains and the outdoors. I’m not much of a city guy.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it’s an issue that concerns Montreal.

GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.

When I was a teenager, a friend of mine got a job on a wrestling radio show in Montreal, and he found a local professional wrestler who was able to train us.

I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I’m there.

I love Montreal. I love the people, I love the history.

Of course we go to Montreal to work as hard as we can and do the best we can, the same way we go everything, but I think if we always think we need to score points, we start forgetting about the stuff we have to do to get there.