Noah Reid Quotes

Noah Reid

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 29, 1987

My maternal grandmother, Emilia, was born in Lovech, Bulgaria, where she learned to speak English. In the 1930s she migrated with her family to Detroit, Michigan, and fostered a Bulgarian community in the U.S.

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Music has to find the cracks in the rest of my world. It has to find the negative space to kind of grow like the weeds growing through the sidewalk. There's something kind of unintentional about it for me, and I love it that way.

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If you're lucky enough to be involved in projects that actively question the world around us, and where people fit or don't fit in, and how we can contribute to a better world or critique the world, that feels like a sweet spot for me.

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I think I'm probably more of a saver.

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I'm a huge Toronto sports fan.

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I'd be the Toronto Blue Jays bat boy if they asked me.

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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.

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It's OK to just be where you are.

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The best things in my life have come from, you know, settling down and not trying to hustle too hard.

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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.

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I'm very emotional about the Raptors.

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I got to work with the late great Olivia Newton John when I was a kid. I was about 20 years old. She played my mum in a movie we did in Canada call 'Score: A Hockey Musical.' It was just a crazy, amazing experience. I would say she has got to be one of my favourite Aussie I have ever met.

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My Grade 4 country project was on Australia!

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I am very lucky to have the opportunity to tour and play my songs in rooms full of people that are coming to hear them.

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I have been super lucky in the first year of my son's life to get to be around him basically every day.

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Honesty' is the moment when things just seem to click and you feel a kind of energy you didn't think existed, and all you want to do is give that person all of your time. Suddenly things feel possible again, you know you belong somewhere and with someone.

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I went to Ireland in my early 20s. I was there for about two weeks. I did go to the pub quite a bit.

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I felt a connection to the traditional music in all the pubs in Dublin that we stopped into.

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I think on my dad's side, like a lot of Canadians, there was a sign of Irish in me somewhere way back, like a few generations back. But if you're not careful and you go to Ireland and start talking about your Irish heritage nobody wants to really talk to you too much about it.

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I think I'm somebody who experiences a good deal of shame.

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