“Personally, I love Toronto.”

It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.

I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

It’s paying homage, very much, to that.

So you really, really have to stay supple.

I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.

He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open.

Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well.

It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything

It was a real character piece.

I just said, “This is something to get on board with.”

I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

There is no person without a world.

In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the “all-chinese” sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.