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" When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. "

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" Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time. "

" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "

" I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic. "

" My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office. "

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" I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. "

" My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly. "

" Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious. "

" My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love. "

" Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it. "

" I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. "

" I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it. "

" People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters. "

" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him. "

" I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way! "

" I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV. "

" Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie. "

" The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like. "

" Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. "

" My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour. "

" I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it. "

" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "

" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "

" Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny. "

" The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. "