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.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

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

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.