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" Even in the face of tragedy, human beings need to find a way to laugh. It's normal. It's life. "
Jordan Gavaris
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" I was one of those kids who kept trying on different skins in high school. I was very afraid to be myself around all of these kids, to really reveal any part of myself that was true, so I would try on different skins, try on different masks, hoping I'd hit on one that was cool or quirky or interesting enough that suddenly I would be OK. "
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" I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness. "
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" One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened. "
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" I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek. "
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" I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking. "
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" I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else. "
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" Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A. "
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Love
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" For 'Orphan Black,' all I got was the pilot script, and that was enough for me. I was daydreaming about this part. I kept thinking about how certain scenes were going to play out and how these interactions were going to take place. "
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Black
" I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum. "
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Bit
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" I would never call myself an expert on geopolitics. I'm not studied in it. But what I do know is what's right and wrong in terms of treatment of people. "
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Wrong
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" TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses. "
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Art
Accessible
" I realized there's a difference between creating a character and sustaining a character. The challenge that comes with sustaining a character is that you have this sudden impulse to think about all the things the audience liked. "
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You
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" I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though. "
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You
" I don't know if you guys have ever kissed anybody in real life, but it doesn't always go as planned. It's not always pretty. It doesn't always look like a movie. It usually looks more like 'American Pie.' "
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American
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Life
" From an acting standpoint, you've got to continue to trust your gut because, ultimately, only that will result in a better product, making the audience more happy and resulting in the right payoff. "
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Trust
Right
Happy
" I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters. "
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Monotony
Actor
Worst
" Women have always been incredible. They've always been amazing. "
Jordan Gavaris
Been
Always
Amazing
" I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character. "
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" I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it. "
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Work
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" I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing. "
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Time
" I hope that one day, the world gets to a place where you don't need to politicize your sexuality any more than someone needs to politicize their race - that we can just act and we can exist in this Zeitgeist, telling stories about one another. "
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" As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other. "
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Competition
" I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.' "
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" There's a thrill in flying by the seat of your pants - trousers, actually: 'pants' in English means underwear - because most shows don't operate that way. Network shows are repetitive. "
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" You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.' "
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" I'm a bit of a geek, and I really like 'Buffy.' "
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Bit
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" I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people? "
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Parents
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" I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career. "
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" There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification. "
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" Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don't access day to day. In my day-to-day physicality, I'm a little bit like a terrier. I've always been described as a dog. I'm kind of goofy and a little dopey looking sometimes. "
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