"I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal."

"My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian."

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny."

"What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."

"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family."

"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof."

"Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes."

"As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me."