We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

I'll never forget visiting the local school for the first time with 50 kids surrounding us. It was a moment when time stopped. The children wrote short stores about our time together. I was amazed at the different ways I had touches their lives.