Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 50)

"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be"

Bruce Greenwood, Actor

"It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses"

Estella Warren, Model

"I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family"

Estella Warren, Model

"I suddenly felt the plane go down. I thought we were going to die. I was really scared. I was sitting with my head in my hands"

Estella Warren, Model

"Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!"

Estella Warren, Model

"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations"

Carol Shields, Author

"No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years"

Bruce Greenwood, Actor

"Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want"

Bruce Greenwood, Actor

"I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"I think the success of my work stems from being truthful"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"The thing is to be able to outlast the trends"

Paul Anka, Musician

"I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs"

Paul Anka, Musician

"The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot"

Cory Doctorow, Journalist

"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart"

Cory Doctorow, Journalist

"What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I love people and I love to be around people"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

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Quotes by Canadian authors