Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 60)

"I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I feel like everything has happened naturally"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it"

Paul Martin, Politician

"There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I'm wearing a garbage bag. I was put on my own worst-dressed list"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian"

Mike Weir, Athlete

"A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course"

Mike Weir, Athlete

"Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag"

Lara St. John, Musician

"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others"

Paul Martin, Politician

"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford"

Paul Martin, Politician

"There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

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