My mom died of cancer when I was really young. Im not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it. – Sarah Polley
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress. – Sarah Polley
Its not that I dont want to become famous or that Im obsessed by my work as an actress, but its all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from. – Sarah Polley
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,