Canadian - Actor | November 12, 1980 -
I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.
Ryan Gosling
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The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
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I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.
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My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony.
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I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.
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I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
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Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.
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I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.
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Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life.
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Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
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I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.
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I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job.
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