Montreal Quotes

The drama critic for The Montreal Gazette gave me a good review in a high-school production of Pride and Prejudice. It went to my head.

- Christopher Plummer

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I`m one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

- Christopher Plummer

I just went with my gut feeling and thought that if I care this much about what I`m doing, then maybe there are opportunities elsewhere and I`d be stupid not to give it a try. (when asked about moving from Montreal to L.A. at 17)

- Elisha Cuthbert

With friends and family in Montreal, it`s always in the back of my mind. I like going back. I miss the nightlife. It`s such a great city. I`ve been a lot of places in the world, and I`m sure I`m biased because I grew up there, but I love it.

- Elisha Cuthbert

No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.

- Kathy Griffin

(on meeting fans) When I was in Montreal this girl came up to me and said, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Melanie Lynskey?" Some come up and say that they were in school with me, or that I am a friend of someone they know.

- Melanie Lynskey

And some places you been before are so great that you don`t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don`t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

- Morgan Freeman

I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don`t live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don`t know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I`ve never had green alien sex, though I`m sure it would be quite an evening. I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt`s, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me `Live long and prosper`, I seriously mean it when I say, `Get a life`. My doctor`s name is not McCoy, it`s Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And yes, I`ve gone where no man has gone before, but I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

- William Shatner

I do feel that I`m equally at ease in Paris as I am in a village in India as I am in a café in Montreal or on Queen Street in Toronto. I like that. It work for my acting process as well.

- LisaRaye

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

- Mario Lemieux

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

- Mario Lemieux

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

- Nadia Comaneci

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

- Mike Schmidt

I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in `88, it was not like that anymore.

- Guy Lafleur

He was a fine referee, but what I am going to remember most is that he was a great human being. He did a tremendous job on the ice, but what he did after he hung up his skates was amazing. He never refused to help an organization. And then there was the many thousands of speeches he made, not only in Montreal and in Quebec, but all across Canada.

- Jean Beliveau

Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It`s up to me from this point forward. I`m going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.

- Darcy Tucker

For myself, it`s out of my control. I can only play my best and see what happens. Obviously I want to be part of it, that would be a great experience. But I feel like I did everything I did and I`m happy with the way I played and I`m not picked, it`s up to them. I can help Montreal out by helping myself out also.

- José Théodore

It was always a goal for me to play with Montreal for many years.

- José Théodore

In Montreal it was every ground ball, fly ball and double play, all that stuff. Every year, 300 to 400 plays. It`s a lot of highlights. Replays from every angle, all the stuff you get on TV.

- Orlando Cabrera

They came to watch us every night, and we became good friends. They`d come to our shows in San Francisco when they were home and we`d go to see them when they were in Montreal. We got along really well and I think it showed a lot of integrity on their part because they got to know us instead of going on what their fans think.

- Chuck Comeau

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

- Todd Berry

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

- Oscar Peterson

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren`t laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

- Allan Carr

I think over there in Montreal they`re a bit hardcore with the old homos. They`re not that keen on them.

- Allan Carr

Against a team like Montreal, on the road, you have to get touchdowns and we failed to do that. We turned the ball over twice inside the 20 and only got field goals inside the 35.

- Jim Daly

I was on the racing line and someone came down on me and then Cristiano (da Matta) came over me. It`s really unfortunate that I got caught in the middle of it. I thought the Intel car had a good shot at bringing home a top result. We`re going to regroup and look for a better race in Montreal.

- Justin Wilson

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal`s economy.

- Kim Campbell

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

- Kim Campbell

I always respected No. 12. There were pictures in the room of people who had played for Montreal and I knew what (Moore) had done before, so I wanted to continue the good work.

- Andy Townsend

The car was great. I just basically just handed the championship to Sebastien. It`s devastating for the whole team. We`ll just try to come back next week in Montreal and win there. That`s all we can do.

- Ann Beeson

It`s tough. We came into Montreal and we wanted to so well and we got off to the worst possible start in the first game there. We could not bounce back. Now we`re at the point where if we don`t get two points, we are going to slip out of the playoff race. We can`t allow that to happen.

- Anna Hill

Montreal is a very nice track with a great crowd, ... I like it a lot. The most important thing in Montreal is the braking. It`s very easy to lock the tires, and there are a lot of chicanes so you have to be really fast in the chicanes.

- Annette Mayer

It`s really good to come to Montreal, play against a really good team and get two points.

- Ari Kelman

It felt pretty good to get two wins here. It`s big for us. Now we can get back to Montreal and get some rest.

- Atsushi Kawai

Now that I`m here, Montreal is only two hours away and my dad and my mom are always down here to see me,

- Barmak Nassirian