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" TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses. "
Jordan Gavaris
Masses
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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World
" Women have always been incredible. They've always been amazing. "
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Always
Amazing
" 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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Try
Time
" 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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Cool
High School
Myself
" 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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Lonely
Story
Know
" 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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Person
" There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification. "
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You
Wait
" 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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Tragedy
Need
" 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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Kid
Know
You
" 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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Place
Thinking
Black
" 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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Way
Pants
Most
" 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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Fun
" 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
Society
Child
" I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.' "
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Loved
Each
Mountain
" 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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Character
You
Things
" 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
Know
Life
" 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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Where
Moment
Like
" 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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School
Got
Competition
" 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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Career
Canada
Acting
" I'm a very political person. I'm a very opinionated person. I have a lot of opinions about LGBTQ representations in the media, and it's not just a gay community issue. It's a black issue. It's an Asian issue. It's a minority issue in general. "
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Community
Political
Media
" 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
" 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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Nature
Love
Beach
" I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum. "
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Bit
Dylan
Bruce
" I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters. "
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Monotony
Actor
Worst
" 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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