I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

You can't geek out with a lot of people about Linda Manz.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie.

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

My mother had to tailor what I watched.

I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony.

I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.

When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.'

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

There's good things about going to church.

I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.

I was highly influenced by violence.

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada.

I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater.

Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.

Dogs and angels are not very far apart.

No one can truly understand the bond we form with the cats we love until they experience the loss of one.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

If your dog doesn’t like someone, you probably shouldn’t either.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

When the cat you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

Home is where the dog runs to greet you.

The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on earth.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The memories and paw print of a beloved cat remains in our heart and soul forever.

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”

“When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.”