When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

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

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.

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.

I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.