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Film has always been where my heart is.
Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.
Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.
I'm always interested in are stories that challenge people.
I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.
I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.
I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
It's wild to be seen differently and have more visibility, but it's rewarding.
I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.
Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.
I'm super sad to have it finish because it's been such a dream job, but it's nice to know there's a conclusion.
I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.
I'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.
I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.
I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.
Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.
For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.
I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.
I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.
We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.
I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
All the foundation work you plant in the early seasons pay off in stronger storylines deep into our seasons. I think that only aids in performance.
You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
You're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had.
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.
I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country.
Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.
Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.