Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Gosling

If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.

Ryan Gosling

I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.

Oliver Platt

You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

Gordon Lightfoot

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

Gordon Lightfoot

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

Gordon Lightfoot

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

Tommy Chong

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

Tommy Chong

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Deborah Cox

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

Robert Gibson

We're not going to have any Canadian department stores any more.

Lynn Coady

It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

Michael Ignatieff

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

Christopher Plummer

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Christopher Plummer

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

Corey Hart

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

Douglas Coupland

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Diana Krall

That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love songs, they are not specific, those kinds of feelings don't change.

Diana Krall

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Donal Logue

Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

Donal Logue

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.

Donal Logue

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

Paul Anka

My demographic of people have been very supportive.

Paul Anka

I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.