Jay Baruchel Quotes

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• I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

  Jay Baruchel

  Who I Am, Ideas, Voice

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My mom said to me when I was a little kid, "You don't have to hate your job. Just because you see all these unhappy grown-ups doesn't mean you have to be one of them." She said, "Find something that you would do for free and find a way to get paid to do it." That's been my guiding principle.

  Jay Baruchel

  Mom, Jobs, Hate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

  Jay Baruchel

  Laughing, Want, Plans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

  Jay Baruchel

  Play, Shoes, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.

  Jay Baruchel

  Beautiful, Sports, Hockey

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

  Jay Baruchel

  Night, Thinking, Next Day

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.

  Jay Baruchel

  Crazy, Real, Successful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  Jay Baruchel

  Jobs, Would Be, Canada

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

  Jay Baruchel

  Doe, Resumes, Comfortable

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• I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

  Jay Baruchel

  Weekend, Watches, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

  Jay Baruchel

  Blue, Towns, Montreal

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• I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

  Jay Baruchel

  Character, Profound, Annoyed

  "Jay Baruchel on His Hockey Comedy, Goon, Meeting James Franco, and Writing for Women". Interview With Jennifer Vineyard, www.vulture.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

  Jay Baruchel

  Needs, Actors, Tailors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

  Jay Baruchel

  Eggs, Shells, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

  Jay Baruchel

  Art, Giving, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

  Jay Baruchel

  Talking, Should, Bunch

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• What I love about [TV] is this: It's a specific thing to be able to tell a satisfying, rewarding story in less than 25 minutes. Not everyone can pull that off. There's something really cool about giving lit people a bunch of little mini movies.

  Jay Baruchel

  People, Giving, Tvs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

  Jay Baruchel

  Acting, Tvs, Adore

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

  Jay Baruchel

  Growing Up, Class, Underdog

  "Actor Jay Baruchel: Why I Insisted on a “Butt Double” for New Film". Interview with Bradley Jacobs, www.usmagazine.com. March 12, 2010.

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• You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you can, you want to try to do something that people haven't done before and give people something that they haven't seen.

  Jay Baruchel

  Art, Humble, Ambition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

  Jay Baruchel

  Home, Guy, Gone

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• Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

  Jay Baruchel

  Believe, Long, Acting

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

  Jay Baruchel

  Jobs, Home, Proud

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.

  Jay Baruchel

  People, Laughing, Pairs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

  Jay Baruchel

  Special, Special Things, Unwind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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