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So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.

I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British.

American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.