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.

I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

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.

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.