Quotes from Jay Baruchel

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

At one time or another, everyone's had the rom-com itch that needs to be scratched.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.