Michael Cera Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

There are a lot of slutty girls in Canada. Eleven-year-old sluts.

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

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 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.

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

Acting is such a weird job.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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