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" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "

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" The States doesn't think much about Canada, but we're attached. We're like Siamese twins. We can't do things - you can't roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters. "

" I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it. "

" I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in '85 and '86 - 'Persephone' and 'The Boys from Syracuse,' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor. "

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" You can write your own history. "

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" I would come home with my friend Bill, and we would sit and watch 'Get Smart.' And I was Agent 44, and he was Agent 85. And it was a fantastic - and all we wanted to do was sleep with Barbara Feldon. "

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" I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. "

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" With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands. "

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