Canadian - Actor | May 8, 1981 -
You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.
Stephen Amell
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I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.
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A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.
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I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to making a movie and how he behaves on set and how he interacts with the crew because from everything that I've heard, it is the template for professionalism and just the way to conduct yourself as an actor.
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Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.
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I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.
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I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.
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When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.
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I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.
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When 'Hung' got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and 'Arrow' was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn't the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.
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When I shot 'Private Practice,' Amy Brenneman made a point of really befriending me before we started shooting.
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I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then I got 'Arrow' in 2012. I know how lucky I am because just getting the lead in a pilot doesn't guarantee that that pilot is going to turn into something great.
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