Quotes About Perception

You get used to cameras being with you 24/7, but you have to be prepared for people to have an opinion.

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?'

Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are.

I talk funny 'cause I come from Canada.

I've never been to Canada in my life.

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

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

You're always told in Canadian movies to make it look like the U.S. and people buy into the idea that that's the only way it'll work.

When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.

Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I've never been able to answer that question.

Canadians haven't always seen themselves in our party.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing them.