Toronto Quotes - Page 7

• And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.

  Alison Pill

  Heyday, Three, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean I feel like we've shot all these different movies. Like the first 2 weeks of shooting was all Steve Stills apartment and band rehearsal, you know? And so it was like this tiny little group of people and small set comparatively and it just looked like a Toronto apartment. And then we sort of kept ramping up further and further until now we're here in this giant like craziest set I've ever seen with LCD crazy lights that go....you know?

  Alison Pill

  Crazy, Mean, Light

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• Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Festivals, Sometimes, Film

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• Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

  Mike Myers

  Country, Cities, Musician

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• Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

  Mike Myers

  Growing Up, Father, Listening

  "Mike Myers shares his "Love Guru" wisdom and his love for Justin Timberlake". Interview with Larry Carrol, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2008.

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• You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

  Keanu Reeves

  Jobs, Done, Television

  "Our Interview with Keanu Reeves, the No-Kidding Digital Cinema Historian and Filmmaker". Interview with Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  "TIFF 2009 – Writer-Director Jason Reitman on Being Festival Royalty". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

  Jason Reitman

  Two, Wife, Vancouver

  "Jason Reitman Takes Off with Up in the Air". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 24, 2010.

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• I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

  Joss Whedon

  Two, Territory, Festivals

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• Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk

  Kelley Armstrong

  Blood, Clothes, Car

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• If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.

  Pat LaFontaine

  Hockey, Nhl, Forever

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• It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

  Alex Delvecchio

  Hockey, Nhl, Blocked

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• On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.

  Peter Karmanos, Jr.

  Hockey, Player, Years

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• I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

  Adam Oates

  Team, Hockey, Nhl

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• Vaughan Telecom installers and contractors ensure the highest quality service for data and network cabling in Toronto and GTA area.

  Edward Abbey

  Photography, Data, Quality

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• I love Toronto, It's the best city.

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

  Cities

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• Look, I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start in school plays. I still live with my folks who make me mow the grass and take the garbage out. Then one day, I'm on this multimillion dollar set surrounded by R2D2 and C3PO. Every nuance was surreal. The saber. A thrill. The outfit and cloak? Mind-boggling. Meeting R2D2. An out-of-body experience.

  Hayden Christensen

  School, Kids, Play

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• I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

  William Hurt

  America, Challenges, Never Quit

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• To Toronto City Council:
  The Sam The Record Man store and sign were important fixtures in Toronto's musical landscape as well as its Civic history. Sadly, all that remains now are our memories of the store and this magnificant neon sign. Ryerson and they City of Toronto should absolutely preserve what myself and many of its citizens consider to be an important symbol of our past and of that store's contributions to our culture.

  Geddy Lee

  Memories, Past, Men

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• Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Edinburgh, Doe

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• Toronto will be the best Pan American Games ever. As PASO’s President, I have said several times that I want to end my leading period with a legacy of the best Games ever; and I am sure we will do it in Toronto.

  Mario Vazquez

  Games, President, Legacy

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• I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

  Griffin Dunne

  Benefits, Lines, Way

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

  Melanie Fiona

  Cities, Parent, Multicultural

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• I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

  Scott Speedman

  Years, Listening, Cubes

  "Scott Speedman for 'xXx: State of the Union'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.

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• There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

  Masai Ujiri

  Basketball, Player, Doubt

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