Noah Reid

“I think the best thing about a career in the arts is that you can retire if you want and you don't have to if you don't want to.”

“My paternal grandmother, Isabel, was a health nurse and a mother of four, and a grandmother of eight.”

“Being in New York, there's so much culture everywhere, and I just love the accidental textures of it: people and buildings, non-stop soundscapes, things left behind on the subway or the sidewalk.”

“The arts have always been a huge part of my life and experience. The arts are where we get to reflect on our experience of life and the world surrounding us and ask questions and consider answers that aren't didactic but all over the place. There's a huge spectrum of belief and understanding, and it's joyful.”

“I'm not a great guitar player.”

“I'm very emotional about the Raptors.”

“Anybody that has an intense belief about themselves and where they are headed needs to have somebody else reflect that and confirm that.”

“It's OK to just be where you are.”

“Theater has always been a huge part of my life.”

“My Grade 4 country project was on Australia!”

“Acting is really creative, and there's artistry to it, but I don't think that just because you're an actor, you're an artist. Music is a space where I get to have some control over that conversation and I always want to make that count.”

“You never know how a project is going to turn out, you know?”

“On most television shows, things move so fast; there's not enough time or creative trust to go around.”

“Television doesn't have a terrific track record of telling queer stories.”

“I'm a simple man.”

“I'm a huge Toronto sports fan.”

“Toronto has an amazing theater scene, and I grew up going to lots of theater and early on decided that it was something I needed to be a part of.”

“I like my sense of humour. I'd be okay with being taller.”

“I was a very private kid and never spoke about childhood crushes. If I let too many cats out of the bag, my older sister, Thea, would make me pay the ultimate price by embarrassing me.”

“Harbord is a really underrated Toronto street.”