Toronto Quotes: Voices of the 6ix

"I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending"

Tom Hooper, Director

"I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC"

Paula Abdul, Musician

"The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville"

Rick Danko, Musician

"Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now"

Rick Dees, Entertainer

"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest"

Eric Roberts, Actor

"I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience"

Jeff Healey, Musician

"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"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

"Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do"

Spike Lee, Director

"I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

"And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start"

Hayden Christensen, Actor

"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting"

Rick Wakeman, Musician

"Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody"

Marcel Dionne, Athlete

"I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, "I really want to play this guy!""

John C. McGinley, Actor

"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging"

William Hurt, Actor

"I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to"

Geddy Lee, Musician

"When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas"

Burt Ward, Actor

"I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV"

Kevin McDonald, Comedian

"I had to learn how to drive because I didn't drive in Toronto"

Kevin McDonald, Comedian