Quotes from James Tupper

If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.

I struggled and I did theater for 10 years, for 15 years, I tried to get little parts here and there in TV shows. So, for me, the opportunity to work with Jim Carrey was amazing, it was phenomenal, it was eye-opening.

Animals have a very clear spirit, and they are so open to the world around them that they can easily be mistreated.

It's fun to solve a mystery, but it's even more fun to watch two people kind of dance around a relationship and be playful with each other.

HBO spends almost a month perfecting an episode. They shoot at the same speed that you would shoot a major motion picture, and they give you all of the things that you need to succeed. They really do support their artists.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, and my uncle lived close to the Bay of Fundy. We would walk across the mud flats out to an island, and then you'd climb a cliff and be in the forest. And if the water came in, the basin would fill up with, like, a 30-foot tide. It was phenomenal.

I have the thickest accent of any Nova Scotian you've ever imagined.

I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

I would say, 'It's not very fa-her to the ca-her.' They would say, 'It's not very far to the car.' I just didn't hear it and it took me forever, but I finally did learn the variations in my tongue and how to make an American sound, and I feel confident with it now.

I went to drama school.