Quotes from Diego Klattenhoff

I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

I can't tell you how good it is to go from 'Homeland' to be lucky enough to find 'The Blacklist' at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.

People are amazed that I'm Canadian and I don't have this crazy accent.

Cardio is boring for me, so running outside helps to keep me going.

I'd like to get back home to Nova Scotia more, but thankfully, with technology you can call and text and FaceTime. But physically being in Toronto or Nova Scotia... there's nothing like it.

I'm going for that Mark Wahlberg look. Strong and confident.

There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.

In Canada, the only weapons you have are for hunting.

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp.

You have to get the casting right. You have to get the people behind it. Your director might not be the right director for the project. And then, it has to test and those people in that room, wherever they are, have to turn those buttons the right way at the right time.

In Nova Scotia, there are some definite down-home accents, and it's funny because you can go to Sydney, and one guy is from North Sydney, and you can't understand a thing he's saying, or Glace Bay or wherever.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Whether it's an FBI agent or a maid, if they want me to wear a pink tutu, I might have a few questions, but I'll wear it for the sake of the story.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.

I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind of a good thing.

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.

I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning.