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've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.