I don't want to get to a point where I consider the national team a club team.
You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.
I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.
Where there is no work, there is no dignity.
I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.
The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.
The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.
There were plenty of times before I did stand-up where I needed counselling, but I didn't go because it would have meant I was officially ill.
I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
