People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.