Emory Cohen

“I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.”

“I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since.”

“Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment.”

“I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s.”

“When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.”

“I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.”

“There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don't know if 'Smash' was one of them.”

“Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'”

“My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.”

“I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.”

“I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.”

“I love a good loser.”

“My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect that blue-collared ideology where they're just trying to make a living.”

“It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.”

“'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.”

“The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.”

“When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them.”

“That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.”

“If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.”

“I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.”