Michael Cera Quotes

Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.

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.

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

Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.

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

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

There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.

Acting is such a weird job.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Hey, lady, those are some sexy-ass extensions. I guess you wont mind if I extend to you a personal invitation to party with me one-on-one in a scary motel room.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.

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

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.