Quotes from Michael Cera

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.

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

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

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.

The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

Acting is such a weird job.

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

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

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.

When I was 16, I was working on 'Arrested Development.' My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with school while doing the show and trying to be around all those people on the show, as much as I could.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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