Toronto Quotes - Page 3

• I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

  Morris Chestnut

  Looks, Pieces, Rehearsal

  "Press Conference Interview With Morris Chestnut And Monica Calhoun On The Best Man Holiday". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com.

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• I know what it's like to live in a cold climate. I grew up in the Snow Belt, north of Toronto in Canada, and I did years and years of running outside.

  Victoria Pratt

  Running, Years, Snow

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• For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Editing, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

  Atom Egoyan

  Independent, Problem, Film

  CineAction! Interview with Ron Brunett, May, 1989.

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• I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

  Atom Egoyan

  Twilight, Television, Shots

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

  Spike Lee

  New York, Film, Ifs

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• I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

  Debi Mazar

  Drama, Three, Television

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• I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

  Mike Myers

  Laid Back, Different, Back When

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

  Aaron McGruder

  America, Differences, People

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• I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

  Rick Moranis

  Cities, Years, Different

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• I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

  Alannah Myles

  Player, House, Bass

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• I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

  Paulo Costanzo

  New York, People, East

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

  Jane Jacobs

  Horse, Islands, Airports

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• I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

  Margaret Cho

  Airports, Eggs, White

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• Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!

  Milla Jovovich

  Girl, Fun, Dirty

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.

  Sarah Harmer

  Thinking, Night, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The innovations are changing now, drastically. I remember coming to Toronto from Vancouver, and on any given night in the '70s, '80s and early '90s, everything was closed at ten o'clock. There was no drinking on Sundays. Unless you stayed at a hotel, then you could get a drink.

  Jim Treliving

  Drinking, Sunday, Night

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals."

  Wayne Gretzky

  Memories, Kids, Years

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.

  G-Eazy

  Thinking, Special, Fans

  Source: bestfan.com

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• I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.

  Rachel McAdams

  Turkeys, Doctors, Brain

  Source: www.enzasbargains.com

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• I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, World, September

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a guaranteed go. It was going to be 24 [episodes] on the air. No questions from NBC. And we shot the pilot, and I was in Toronto doing a movie, and I got a call saying they cut the character, that I was off the show.

  Eric McCormack

  Character, Cutting, Nbc

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Hands, Two

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

  William Gibson

  Style, Too Much, Strikes

  Source: craphound.com

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• A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

  William Gibson

  Ties, Retail, Levels

  Source: craphound.com

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