The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me. '
I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there [with Bernard Leach ].
I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.
As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18. 99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons