You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you can, you want to try to do something that people haven't done before and give people something that they haven't seen.