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

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

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

I've always been kind of a hermit.

I like relationships and being in love, but I also like being single - you have to embrace all those different things.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

Ice cream is happiness condensed.

Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

Tomorrow is another opportunity to relentlessly and confidently push harder with your dream. You definitely haven't given it your all until you are living in its reality.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.

You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.