“Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they’ll reach an audience or not.”

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It’s unthinkable.

Well, I’m Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I’m the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

I don’t like to play the victim.

It’s nice not to be too boring.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Several of the actors I’ve had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as ‘ultimate’. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.

I mean there’s still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it’s one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they’re going to want something from me I can’t give, or they’re going to hurt me.

I’m the audience’s representative on earth.

It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.