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" I wish I could be Peter Falk. "
Ryan Gosling
Peter
Wish
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" I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life. "
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" I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system. "
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" I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit. "
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" Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off. "
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" I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective. "
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" If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible. "
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" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are. "
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" I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal. "
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" I still go to Disneyland as much as I can. The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride. "
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" As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore. "
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" 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. "
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" I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. "
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" It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.' "
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" My mom was really cool. "
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" You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair. "
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" There's good things about going to church. "
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" In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis. "
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" If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope. "
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" If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done. "
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