Interesting Quotes By Famous Torontonians

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow

because it was important to them:

there ought to be as many for love."

~  Margaret Atwood, author

"No matter what your choices are, you truly 

have no control about what people think of you."

~  Neve Campbell, actress

"I think I may have become an actor to hide 

from myself. You can escape into a character."

~  John Candy, actor

"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos."

~  Douglas Coupland, author

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

~  Jim Carrey, actor

"When you're in the muck, you can only see muck.

If you somehow manage to float above it, you

still see the muck but you see it from a different

perspective. And you see other things too. 

That's the consolation of philosophy."

~  David Cronenberg, film director

"It's important for me to let my 

fans know I really don't care."

~  Drake, hip-hop artist

"If you keep bashing your head against 

the same wall, at some point you're going

to fall over and be still for awhile."

~  Feist, singer/songwriter

"Always have a sense of humor 

about life – you'll need it – 

but always be courteous to boot."

~  Peter Jennings, journalist

"A half truth, like half a brick, is

always more forcible as an argument 

than a whole one. It carries better."

~  Stephen Leacock, author

"People who annoy people are

the luckiest people in the world."

~  Howie Mandel, actor

"Sorrow is so easy to express

and yet so hard to tell."

~  Joni Mitchell, singer/songwriter

"With fame there is a crosswire

between intensity and intimacy.

You have decoy intimacy, but 

you are also very much alone."

~  Mike Myers, actor

"You may have a fresh start any

moment you choose, for this thing

that we call 'failure' is not the 

falling down, but the staying down."

~  Mary Pickford, actress

"You never appreciate anonymity

until you don't have it anymore."

~  Jason Priestley, actor

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends."

~  Keanu Reeves, actor

"No one is any one thing."

~  Martin Short, actor

"It's very important in life to know when to

shut up. You should not be afraid of silence."

~  Alex Trebek, TV personality

"You're never too fat for a new purse."

~  Nia Vardalos, actress

"The thing about my music is,

there really is no point."

~  Neil Young, singer/songwriter