Cera Quotes & Sayings

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other. — Ari Graynor

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

There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen. — Will Ferrell

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. — Michael Cera

Sin-cere. Since the days of Michelangelo, sculptors had been hiding the flaws in their work by smearing hot wax into the cracks and then dabbing the wax with stone dust. The method was considered cheating, and therefore, any sculpture "without wax" - literally sine cera - was considered a "sincere" piece of art. The phrase stuck. To this day we still sign our letters "sincerely" as a promise that we have written "without wax" and that our words are true. — Dan Brown

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges. — Jonah Hill

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

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

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

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. — Michael Cera

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

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

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

During the writers' strike in 2007, we put on our own SNL episode there with old sketches. Michael Cera hosted, our musical guest was Yo La Tengo, and we gave Lorne a birthday cake as he sat in the audience. — Amy Poehler

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

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

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. — Michael Cera

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. — Michael Cera

At the Redbox we gather essential movies:
Johnny Depp, Jude Law,
Michael Cera, and Jon Heder
(because we all have a weak spot
for the skinny, homely, Leftover,
Napoleon Dynamites of the world). — Sarah Tregay

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

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

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

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

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

You need to be grounded internally and excited about the world around you. If I were out of touch, it would be hard for me to know why Michael Cera is so cool. — Stacey Snider

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

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano. — Michael Cera

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

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

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. — Michael Cera

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. — Michael Cera

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

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

I would watch either Michael Cera doing comedy or Louis CK doing stand-up. This would — James Altucher

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

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

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. — Michael Cera

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. — Michael Cera

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

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

Anyway, that guy. This is all his damned fault. It's his fault I'm bent over the edge of the bed with my red satin panties hanging from my one ankle. It's his fault I've got a little hot, gooey cum dripping from my chin. It's his fault my heart is still pounding from my first non-DIY orgasm. My first thundering, shuddering orgasm that I didn't tease out with my wet, dripping fingers, the corner of the dryer or 'Jumbo', the 7-inch ribbed black dildo I keep as my shameful little secret, tucked in the gap between my mattress and the headboard.

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Fuck you, Michael Cera. Fuck you hard.

Sincerely,

Jill Travers — Aya Fukunishi

I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation. — Michael Cera

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

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

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

Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean. — Michael Cera

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

Acting is such a weird job. — Michael Cera