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"Well, I've never really killed anyone before, but that's what I'm shooting for. That's my ambition. I know it's a hard profession, and it's a competive field and getting tougher every year. You have to kill about twenty people now before you're taken seriously. But let's face it, what other options do I have? There's not a lot of opportunities up here for social mobility. I mean, you can either become a hockey player or take up a life of crime, and I had weak ankles, so there ya go."
--Russel Skelly (Don) explaining why he wants to become a serial killer, in ROADKILL
"...I've got a piece of the spine stuck in my teeth...*kaff*"
--Russel, while dining on cat roadkill
OTTO: "You know what we should do? Have sex! We haven't done it in ages. How about it Jackie?"
JACKIE: "Umm, no."
OTTO: "C'mon, it'll be like old times."
POKEY: "She said no."
OTTO: "You too Pokey - no problem! I'm bisexual!"
--Otto (Art Bergmann), Jackie (Valerie Buhagiar) and Pokey (Don) during a dinner conversation, in HIGHWAY 61
"...It's amazing what you'll do to a guy who's two feet taller than you."
--Ray Bud (Don) recalling how he tormented a childhood school mate, from ARROWHEAD
CRAIG: "If you're gonna be going..."
PATRICK: "...You might as well be coming."
--Craig (Callum Keith Rennie) and Patrick (Don) referring to sex at the end of the world, in LAST NIGHT
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"There's a certain fantasy, maybe male fantasy, of this character who just sits, does nothing, has despicable living habits but somehow is able to land a great girlfriend and make money and live. But you know, I like to think that for women, too, there's a certain fantasy which is basically more physical: living with me."
--commenting on alter-ego Curtis, from TWITCH CITY
"My character in Twitch City is a kind of caricature of a perception some people might have of me. It's a joke at my expense. It's the way I feel some days when I'm at home feeling pathetic and full of self-loathing and just sitting in front of the television set eating cereal."
--more thoughts on Curtis from TWITCH CITY
"I'm fully at ease with weirdom."
--from SHIFT magazine
"How can I not be happy today? But it's getting harder and harder to whine about not being appreciated at home."
--after his many Genie Awards nominations
"He certainly cast a long shadow. He's well known, this Steven Spielberg character."
--on THE RED VIOLIN playing the same night as SAVING PRIVATE RYAN at the Venice Film Festival
"When I was growing up, while my friends were listening to Pink Floyd, I was in the basement, stoned, listening to Glenn Gould with the lights off..."
--from TAKE ONE magazine
"I have this shame about aspiring to celebrity. Perhaps I'd like to end up there accidentally."
--from SHIFT magazine
"Probably at this point I'd just be going out in the street saying: 'I told you so! I told you so!'"
--what he would do on the last night on earth
"I just wanted to slug him."
--recalling an experience with a difficult Richard Gere, during Don's days as a "glorified usher" at the Toronto Film Festival
"My parents met here at Hart House. They were married here, too. And I think I was even conceived here, in a room down the hall..."
--during a re-visit to the University of Toronto's Hart House building
"[It's] a small, unflattering part. I appear pasty and puffy like a ripe cadaver. It's the kind of character that might be viewed as a brave departure from an actor who wasn't already considered pasty and puffy."
--referring to his character Bradley, from WAYDOWNTOWN
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"We finally decided that Don McKellar would play the part [of Pokey Jones]. He later told us he wouldn't have written any scenes showing his skinny little butt up on the big screen had he known he'd play the part."
--HIGHWAY 61 producer Colin Brunton, from Kulture Void
"When Don McKellar was in high school in Toronto in the late 1970's, he and a few friends started something they called 'The Existentialist Club,' which met periodically to debate the works of thinkers such as Soren Kierkergaard. The day after Jean-Paul Satre died, McKellar waltzed into the school office and talked himself into being allowed to make a general announcement over the PA system to mark the passage of the great French philosopher. He delivered a few eulogistic remarks and then asked for a moment of silence. After several minutes of increasingly irreverent dead air, the vice-principlal - an ex-football player not noted for his sense of humour - testily grabbed the mike away from the resident nihilist and restored order. No wonder the drama teacher at Lawrence Park Collegiate liked to call McKellar 'a little arm of Satan.'"
--writer John Lorinc, from SATURDAY NIGHT magazine
"[S]kinny with close-set eyes, a crazed expression and the inexplicable trace of a British accent..."
--John Lorinc's description of Don, during his high school days
"He's the thinking woman's pin-up."
--anonymous fan
"He is never where you expect him to be... One night I heard Don sing Frank Sinatra at a karaoke bar in Taiwan; it made me think I didn't know him at all."
--François Girard, from TORONTO LIFE magazine
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