Latest Michael Cera Quotes from Interviews

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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?"

  Michael Cera

  Writing, Self, Doubt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Crazy, Writing, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Dvds, Long, Long Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Thinking, Luxury, Support

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Baseball, Ocean, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Baseball, Player, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Michael Cera

  Matter, Problem, Situation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Michael Cera

  Directors, Actors, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Michael Cera

  Years, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

  Michael Cera

  Comedy, Classic, Catching Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Ideas, Decision, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Directors, Rehearsal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Moving, Doing You, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Choices, Focus, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Choices, Being Real, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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, Focus, Waiting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Michael Cera

  Girl, Years, Canada

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Michael Cera

  Years, Wish, Brat

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Michael Cera

  Acting, Adults, Want

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• 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, Figures

• 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

  Interview with Jason Schwartzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

• 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

  Interview with Jason Schwartzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.