Michael Cera Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.
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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.
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Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.
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It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"
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I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.
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I've been wanting to do a play for years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.
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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.
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I worry more about something that isn't working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.
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Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.
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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.
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My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
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Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.
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Acting is such a weird job.
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You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.
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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.
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I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.
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