James Tupper

“I'll always be a small-town boy from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.”

“It's one of the things about being a person with a public presence, to get to lend your name to a worthy cause.”

“I always imagine babies crying.”

“I struggled and I did theater for 10 years, for 15 years, I tried to get little parts here and there in TV shows. So, for me, the opportunity to work with Jim Carrey was amazing, it was phenomenal, it was eye-opening.”

“We do everything we can, obviously, to keep as private a life as possible.”

“There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?”

“Do you know I'm a sex symbol?”

“I'm not ready to rush into marriage.”

“I was just hoping to have the freedom to do my work.”

“I grew up in Nova Scotia, and my uncle lived close to the Bay of Fundy. We would walk across the mud flats out to an island, and then you'd climb a cliff and be in the forest. And if the water came in, the basin would fill up with, like, a 30-foot tide. It was phenomenal.”

“My dad couldn't believe I was called sexy.”

“HBO spends almost a month perfecting an episode. They shoot at the same speed that you would shoot a major motion picture, and they give you all of the things that you need to succeed. They really do support their artists.”

“If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can go, in my opinion.”

“I have my mountain man moments like hiking in the woods.”

“Animals have a very clear spirit, and they are so open to the world around them that they can easily be mistreated.”

“People ask me all the time, 'Are you intimidated, working with strong women?' I'm like, 'No, I'm thrilled. I'm a strong dude. I'm thrilled to work with someone who knows what the heck they're doing, and brings a lot of cool, fun stuff to play with.'”

“I would say, 'It's not very fa-her to the ca-her.' They would say, 'It's not very far to the car.' I just didn't hear it and it took me forever, but I finally did learn the variations in my tongue and how to make an American sound, and I feel confident with it now.”

“I will watch football or baseball.”

“Suddenly, relationships go topsy-turvy, and guys often don't understand what's going on. I think a lot of men are in that boat.”

“It's fun to solve a mystery, but it's even more fun to watch two people kind of dance around a relationship and be playful with each other.”