Shawn Ashmore

“I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.”

“As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.”

“Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.”

“So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.”

“I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.”

“I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.”

“Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.”

“Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.”

“Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.”

“Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.”

“I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.”

“It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.”

“Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.”

“I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.”

“Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.”

“I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.”

“The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.”

“Why would people spend good money to have my pants?”

“The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.”

“I'm a video game buff.”