"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."

"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."

"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."

"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created."

"We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."

"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."