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I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.
JASON PRIESTLEY![]()
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sp...
NEIL PEART My father just got back from a trip to Canada and gas was $6 a gallon there. And I have relatives in...
DORIS JONES![]()
I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for...
HOWIE MANDEL![]()
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe...
JUDITH BUTLER![]()
I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.
RYAN REYNOLDS![]()
I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished th...
EVANGELINE LILLY I would have to say that Canada definitely produces the best wrestlers; I don't know why. I thin...
CHRIS JERICHO I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.
JASON PRIESTLEY![]()
An Internal Revenue inspector walks into a synagogue and asks to see the rabbi. He is shown to the r...
UNKNOWN I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
JAKE EPSTEIN![]()
My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my...
SHALOM HARLOW I had 16? Wow. Usually, Steve gets 12, so there was a lot more assists left in the game.
BORIS DIAW![]()
I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Da...
RYAN GOSLING In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and ra...
MARY GORDON I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I&#...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY![]()
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came ...
LARRY HOLMES![]()
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never s...
ELISHA CUTHBERT We were of the opinion that he was a danger to the public and that he should not be allowed to remai...
JANIS FERGUSSON My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN![]()
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he g...
LEONARD SUSSKIND When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, Englan...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, an...
BRUCE MCCULLOCH Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family l...
SHEREEN EL FEKI![]()
I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.
SHANE SMITH My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ...
CATHERINE TATE I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.
ROBERT J. SAWYER![]()
I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.
JOEL MADDEN I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
ELLEN PAGE It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadi...
DAVID SUTCLIFFE![]()
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different....
CAROL LEIFER![]()
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I m...
MATTHEW PERRY There was the barest minimum of religion at home. In my entire youth, until I left home at age 15, I...
LEONARD ROSE David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
DAVE FOLEY![]()
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'...
ATHOL FUGARD![]()
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we li...
HANNAH SIMONE![]()
In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ![]()
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie...
MARTHA STEWART My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE![]()
I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,&#...
CAMILA ALVES I didn't think the officials from Canada would do that because from what I understand, Canada has no...
BILL MCPIKE![]()
I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors...
NIA VARDALOS The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so ...
SPIDER ROBINSON![]()
I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.
CORY MONTEITH I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in M...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE![]()
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's every...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt mo...
EMM GRYNER I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS![]()
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD![]()
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of ...
STANA KATIC We had a lot of 'ifs'. I know Canada had to lose.
CASSIE JOHNSON My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE![]()
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no...
DAVE MUSTAINE I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during th...
LUPITA NYONG'O![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a ma...
JAMIE BAMBER I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
OWEN HART I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from ...
RAFE SPALL I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY![]()
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my ...
ALANIS MORISSETTE![]()
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried t...
DEBI MAZAR![]()
Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day ...
BOBBY ORR The bank of Canada is operating textbook econ 101 here in hiking rates in anticipation of inflation ...
JOHN ANANIA There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
WAYNE ROGERS![]()
I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada...
JUSTIN CHATWIN After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. ...
JOSH LOGAN We believe this is a fair price for Sears Canada. Sears Canada faces tough competition from a slew o...
CHRIS BRATHWAITE![]()
As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and rais...
ALESSIA CARA![]()
Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, a...
CARLY RAE JEPSEN I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou...
ALAN BRADLEY There have been times where I have been playing a 16-year-old, and people have been like, 'She s...
BRITT ROBERTSON I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid,...
LANE GARRISON I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
SAMANTHA BEE![]()
On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from th...
ALEXIS OHANIAN 'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first...
MADISON DAVENPORT I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack...
PATRICK CHAN I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL For me this was a very difficult decision. I had to do a lot of reflection and inner searching. I ca...
BELINDA STRONACH![]()
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first mar...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very...
DUSTIN MILLIGAN I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
GAUTAM ADANI I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it,
BRIAN MULRONEY If I'm ever at a mall or some kind of place where there's a lot of younger girls, some peopl...
JAKE EPSTEIN We just beat Canada. What more can I ask? Beating Canada at the Olympics. I wouldn't have thought th...
JOEL RETORNAZ When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up ...
CHRISTINE SINCLAIR I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
BECKY LYNCH At 16, I walked around knowing I'd get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way - I felt I...
BOY GEORGE![]()
What part of Canada are you from, honey?"
"THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
ADAM REX![]()
And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Cana...
DUANE G. CAREY![]()
In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart;...
JOHNATHON SCHAECH I was about mobility and intellectual freedom. Traveling to Canada was where my activist spirit came...
HORACE CAMPBELL As kids we knew whatever Canada was then it would be far greater tomorrow. That is the Canada I see ...
KEN DRYDEN![]()
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'W...
STEVEN WRIGHT![]()
I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for t...
SEAN BEAN![]()
I went through a little hippy dippy program at Brandeis and was bat mizvahed by the rabbi who marrie...
ARI GRAYNOR![]()
I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or wher...
THOMAS MCGUANE Canada is more competitive than Jamaica and my goal was to prove to the world that I could be good a...
LASCELLES BROWN
JASON PRIESTLEY
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sp... NEIL PEART My father just got back from a trip to Canada and gas was $6 a gallon there. And I have relatives in...
DORIS JONES
I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for... HOWIE MANDEL
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER
I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place. RYAN REYNOLDS
I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished th... EVANGELINE LILLY I would have to say that Canada definitely produces the best wrestlers; I don't know why. I thin...
CHRIS JERICHO I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.
JASON PRIESTLEY
An Internal Revenue inspector walks into a synagogue and asks to see the rabbi. He is shown to the r... UNKNOWN I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
JAKE EPSTEIN
My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my... SHALOM HARLOW I had 16? Wow. Usually, Steve gets 12, so there was a lot more assists left in the game.
BORIS DIAW
I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Da... RYAN GOSLING In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and ra...
MARY GORDON I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I&#...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came ... LARRY HOLMES
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never s... ELISHA CUTHBERT We were of the opinion that he was a danger to the public and that he should not be allowed to remai...
JANIS FERGUSSON My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he g... LEONARD SUSSKIND When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, Englan...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, an...
BRUCE MCCULLOCH Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family l...
SHEREEN EL FEKI
I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. SHANE SMITH My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ...
CATHERINE TATE I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was. JOEL MADDEN I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
ELLEN PAGE It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadi...
DAVID SUTCLIFFE
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER
I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I m... MATTHEW PERRY There was the barest minimum of religion at home. In my entire youth, until I left home at age 15, I...
LEONARD ROSE David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
DAVE FOLEY
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we li... HANNAH SIMONE
In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to... ALAN DERSHOWITZ
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie... MARTHA STEWART My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,&#... CAMILA ALVES I didn't think the officials from Canada would do that because from what I understand, Canada has no...
BILL MCPIKE
I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors... NIA VARDALOS The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so ...
SPIDER ROBINSON
I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game. CORY MONTEITH I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in M...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's every... DENIS VILLENEUVE I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt mo...
EMM GRYNER I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of ... STANA KATIC We had a lot of 'ifs'. I know Canada had to lose.
CASSIE JOHNSON My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no... DAVE MUSTAINE I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during th...
LUPITA NYONG'O
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a ma...
JAMIE BAMBER I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
OWEN HART I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from ...
RAFE SPALL I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my ... ALANIS MORISSETTE
My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried t... DEBI MAZAR
Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day ... BOBBY ORR The bank of Canada is operating textbook econ 101 here in hiking rates in anticipation of inflation ...
JOHN ANANIA There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
WAYNE ROGERS
I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada... JUSTIN CHATWIN After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. ...
JOSH LOGAN We believe this is a fair price for Sears Canada. Sears Canada faces tough competition from a slew o...
CHRIS BRATHWAITE
As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and rais... ALESSIA CARA
Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, a... CARLY RAE JEPSEN I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou...
ALAN BRADLEY There have been times where I have been playing a 16-year-old, and people have been like, 'She s...
BRITT ROBERTSON I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid,...
LANE GARRISON I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
SAMANTHA BEE
On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from th... ALEXIS OHANIAN 'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first...
MADISON DAVENPORT I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack...
PATRICK CHAN I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL For me this was a very difficult decision. I had to do a lot of reflection and inner searching. I ca...
BELINDA STRONACH
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first mar... PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very...
DUSTIN MILLIGAN I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
GAUTAM ADANI I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it,
BRIAN MULRONEY If I'm ever at a mall or some kind of place where there's a lot of younger girls, some peopl...
JAKE EPSTEIN We just beat Canada. What more can I ask? Beating Canada at the Olympics. I wouldn't have thought th...
JOEL RETORNAZ When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up ...
CHRISTINE SINCLAIR I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
BECKY LYNCH At 16, I walked around knowing I'd get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way - I felt I...
BOY GEORGE
What part of Canada are you from, honey?""THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
ADAM REX
And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Cana... DUANE G. CAREY
In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart;... JOHNATHON SCHAECH I was about mobility and intellectual freedom. Traveling to Canada was where my activist spirit came...
HORACE CAMPBELL As kids we knew whatever Canada was then it would be far greater tomorrow. That is the Canada I see ...
KEN DRYDEN
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'W... STEVEN WRIGHT
I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for t... SEAN BEAN
I went through a little hippy dippy program at Brandeis and was bat mizvahed by the rabbi who marrie... ARI GRAYNOR
I had a passionate zest for Key West life in all of its little details. I'm not sure why or wher... THOMAS MCGUANE Canada is more competitive than Jamaica and my goal was to prove to the world that I could be good a...
LASCELLES BROWN
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The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people. 
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of... 
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphin... 
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you ha... 
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of ... 