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" I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters. "
Jordan Gavaris
Monotony
Actor
Worst
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" I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum. "
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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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" 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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" The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate. "
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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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" Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?' "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours - sometimes 18 hours if you're doing 'Orphan Black.' "
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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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Got
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Black
Saying
" I'm a bit of a geek, and I really like 'Buffy.' "
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Bit
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" 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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Moment
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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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" 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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" TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses. "
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" I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.' "
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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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" There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Women have always been incredible. They've always been amazing. "
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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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" As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch. "
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