Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 5)

"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut"

Mark McKinney, Comedian

"It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off"

Mark McKinney, Comedian

"I don't have an act. I just try to talk as quietly as I can and stay calm"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi"

Larry Wall, Author

"And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward"

Rachel McAdams, Actress

"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper"

Arthur Christiansen, Journalist

"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness"

Gabrielle Roy, Author

"I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him"

Donald Stewart Cherry, Journalist

"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude"

Norm MacDonald, Actor

"In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors"

James Cameron, Director

"I punch left-handed"

Mike Weir, Athlete

"I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from"

Elvis Stojko, Athlete

"Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends"

Devon Sawa, Actor

"I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan"

Mia Kirshner, Actress

"Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation"

Frank Scott, Poet

"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time"

Neil Young, Musician

"I ride my horse at competition level"

Alannah Myles, Musician

"We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?"

Ashleigh Banfield, Journalist

"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business"

Jeff Healey, Musician

"I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything"

Paul Haggis, Director

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all"

William Osler, Scientist

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