Canadian Actor Quotes

Michael J. Fox

Keanu Reeves

Christopher Plummer

Donald Sutherland

Dan Aykroyd

Gavin McInnes

Drake

I think Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

It is this, or that - all the universe, or nothing. Which shall it be... Which shall it be?

Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.

Stewart Francis

Women and science are incompatible. No true scientist can have anything to do with a woman.

When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials.

Ever since we were out of the womb, we've been competing. That's just how brothers are.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

What the future will understand about your time and your culture and what you've contributed to it will be influenced by art. That is much more valuable than warships. The rest of the world may be affected by a bomb we drop on them, but their perception of our society will come through the arts.

Reporter: Your reputation as an actor is, you're all work, no socializing
Reeves: That's been my nature for the past year and a half. I do go out once in a while. It's not like I'm a monk. It's not like people would say, "Before, he was footloose and fancy-free, and then he became a monk."

When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles; now they have the land and we have the bibles.

I was an atheist most of my life and now I am a God-fearing Catholic, because of the miracle of life. And I'm pro-life. Amongst my peers abortion is cool, it's like, empowering, and they make jokes about it. Some of my best friends go, 'I accept that it's murder and I am pro-choice.' That's the world I live in.

When you're working for a good director, you become subjective and submissive. You become his concubine. All that you seek is his pleasure.

Donald Sutherland

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

I truly believe that when you're funny, you're blessed. Your whole life is kind of golden. I was happy, although it was not perfect happiness. There was illness and sadness and death.

I'm glad to see [drinking is] coming back these days, particularly in the young — at least they've got good taste. Because I could never connect with my friends who were on drugs. They were in a totally gaga world, but at least booze — you could be violent, you could be funny, you could tell stories. It was a much more gregarious form of anathematizement.

Christopher Plummer

I did terrible little plays in New York that we put up ourselves. My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

But that's why I'm here. In this room, all of you, all of us, can do so much more together than any one person can do alone. And I hope that thought bolsters you as much as it does me. I hope the workshops you'll go to over the next few days give you strength. Because I can only imagine that there are days—when you've worked longer hours than your boss realizes or cares about, just to help a kid you know can make it. Days where you feel completely alone. Undermined. Or hopeless.

I don't feel that I need to play characters who are role models for young people. If you are only good, you leave them to explore the bad on their own.

You can call it a cheap shot, blind shot, a late hit; you can call it what you want and it should've been a suspension as far as I'm concerned. It's unbelievable that it's not a suspension. What it did, it gave meat to everybody that's against the National Hockey League—this'll be the poster boy…[while showing clips of controversial hits by Cooke over the years] You think he'd do this stuff against [Wayne] Gretzky, if [Dave] Semenko was there? Do you think he'd do this against [Steve] Yzerman if [Bob] Probert was there? No, that's what I'm trying to tell you, he wouldn't do that stuff.

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

Alexander Mackenzie

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50.00 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.

Of being abused at the age of 14

Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitioning from fitting in to standing out.