Michael Cera Quotes

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.

I worry more about something that isn't working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I feel like I'm still doing something constructive.

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

Things move so quickly on set. When you're about to do another take and you have a minute to figure out what you're doing, you just kind of determine how you're going to do it on the spot.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

It's great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.

I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.

When you're 12, a 12-year-old girl is so out of your league, because they have no interest in you. You're like 10 years younger. You're 2 to them.

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

I don't think anyone cares whether you're working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.

Acting is such a weird job.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

I've been wanting to do a play for years.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.