Canadian Actors Quotes

I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.

Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.

It's really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff.

I got really into 'North of 60,' and I'll still watch reruns of 'Da Vinci's Inquest.'

Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara are two of my favorite actors.

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

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

There's hardly a single show that doesn't have a Canadian on it.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

It was 1976, and I was acting off-Broadway with a pair of Canadians: Victor Garber and Gale Garnett. The play was called 'Cracks,' and Martin Sherman, the man who wrote it, went on a few years later to have a giant hit with 'Bent.' But not this time around. Opening night was a disaster.

We both [me and Eugene Levy] come from the same place. Eugene did most of his work in SCTV and ensemble situations. I'd done all this theater work before I got into movies and ensemble situations. We both learned how to develop characters and interact with other people in a unique and economic sort of way.

There are a lot of top-notch shows in Canada.