Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way; you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.