Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.