I think it’s more fun to play a hero with an edge.

I’d take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people’s minds and make them do whatever I wanted.

It doesn’t get more iconic than Terry Fox.

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.

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

Obviously I think Vancouver definitely enjoyed our time there, a lot of money was brought into the city, and it was just exciting.

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 think, ultimately, those little details come through, even if it’s just in my head.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Right now I’m looking for the next thing, I’m taking my time finding something that really fits for me, I want to try something different from X-Men.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

I honestly don’t feel that this story has been sugar-coated. Obviously you’re telling the story of a hero . . . but it stays true to the essence of the run.

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

That’s why Ged is perfect for an actor because he’s the hero, but not a classic hero in the sense that he does good all the time.

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.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone’s relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

One of the things I was really concerned about was having enough time to train and get the physical aspects of the character down. For Canadians especially, it’s such an important image to all of...

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting.

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I’m always the last one to know about these things, literally.

We didn’t tell the story of a cancer patient. This movie is about the run and the great thing that he did. It’s a really personal story, too, just four main characters, Terry, his friend...

Why would people spend good money to have my pants?

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.

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

I didn’t discover Terry until I was 10 years old, he was a legend by that time,

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

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.

I’m a video game buff.

They had food fights all the time, they were three young guys in a van, for the first time.going across the country. They were excited more than anything, especially in the beginning. As much as...

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

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.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

We were out in the country running for a lot of the shoot,

Being a villain is great, even though I’ve only gotten to do it a few times.

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.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I’m into other people’s recommendations when it comes to fashion.

Thank goodness for me this technology exists, because it’s the only way that his story would get told like this.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

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.

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

It’s an interesting piece of Canadian history. Terry’s one of our great heroes and it’s important to keep his legacy alive and continue to support cancer research.

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

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...