Michael Cera famous quotes

04-12-2025

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

#Being Real #Choices #Actors
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Careers #Decision #Want
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Long #Waiting #Focus
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Girl #Years #League
There are a lot of slutty girls in Canada. Eleven-year-old sluts.
-- Michael Cera

#Girl #Years #Canada
Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.
-- Michael Cera

#Years #Wish #Brat
When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.
-- Michael Cera

#People #Support #Want
If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.
-- Michael Cera

#Acting #Adults #Want
Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I'm done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.
-- Michael Cera

#Song #Ideas #Discipline
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Real #Comedy #Tricks
I worry more about something that isn't working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.
-- Michael Cera

#Worry #Stuff #Forget
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Thinking #Hands #Littles
Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.
-- Michael Cera

#Zero #Age #Canada
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Wall #Character #Sleep
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Memories #School #People
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Parent #Little Sister #Littles
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
-- Michael Cera

#Father #Feet #Machines
I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.
-- Michael Cera

#Hockey #Feels
I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.
-- Michael Cera

#Piano #Play #Goes On
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Thinking #Years #Development
If someone wants to be a part of your life, theyâ€™ll be there. So donâ€™t bother saving a spot for someone who wonâ€™t make an effort to stay.
-- Michael Cera

#Effort #Want #Saving
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Sexy #Party #Scary
Acting is such a weird job.
-- Michael Cera

#Jobs #Acting
I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.
-- Michael Cera

#Noses #Broke #Concussions
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
-- Michael Cera

#Trying #Stories #Actors
Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.
-- Michael Cera

#Men #Old Man
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Ideas #Talking #Age
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.
-- Michael Cera

#Confused #School #Feelings

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