I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' when I was a kid. It was kind of like growing up playing a sport, wanting to be drafted by your favorite team.
I can bluff with the best of them.
There are very few actors in L.A. who can call their own shots. If you're able to work on something that you actually like working on, you're a very lucky person, and if you're able to keep it going, you're very fortunate.
Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that.
Jonathan Sadowski is a kick in the pants; he's become a really good buddy.
I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren't my best work.
The Internet is a sketch show.
As a Canadian, I feel like we all have a stake in the business here. And no matter how far you stray - and I've been down in L.A. for a long time - no matter how far you stray you have a stake in the state of the business... It really does matter and I'm always rooting for the entire country.
At any kind of Fox function, you'll see 'Mad TV' at the kiddy table in the back, next to the buffet. We're a late-night sketch show, and there is more money in prime time.
As a kid I would watch 'SCTV,' 'Saturday Night Live,' 'Monty Python' and 'The Kids in the Hall,' and be amazed that these guys got to be different people every week. It spoke to the acting side in me.
I sort of as a kid was fascinated with all the fat comedians, like John Candy, John Belushi, Benny Hill.
When you get to do something based on a true story, it always raises the level of excitement.
I was blown away all the time by just how amazing people are in Canada, because even if they hated me, they still would try to help me.
I've never done a role because I was supposed to be the overweight guy.
Pretty soon I may have to go back to Canada and buy that lumberyard I've always wanted. I'll probably sell some lumber, bring in some lumber... look at exploiting that lumber somehow. I'm not very schooled in it, but being an actor I feel that I have a keen sensibility with regard to the world of lumber because those two businesses are so similar.
I'm from Vancouver and friends of mine will shoot something up in Vancouver and they'll be like, 'Ugh.' They've never been to Vancouver and they're like, 'They got me stuck in Vancouver for three months.' I'm like, 'No, you're being set free. It's one of the most livable cities in the entire world.'
I want to be known as the Daniel Day-Lewis of TV dads.
Julius Sharpe and his wife are extremely loving parents, and because I follow them on Instagram, I always see them, you know, building forts in their living room with their daughters, and doing this and that.
Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.
I like playing average guys who have a little extra something.
