Latest Jay Baruchel Quotes from Interviews

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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

• If you know what you want and you hire people that can do it, there's no reason it should be arduous and torturous. I wanted everyone to enjoy themselves on my set and want to be there, to take ownership of it and pitch ideas to me and know that this is their flick.

  Jay Baruchel

  People, Reason, Ownership

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• 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

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

  Jay Baruchel

  Laughing, Want, Plans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the best film school in the world." I'm incredibly grateful for the career I've had, but I was an actor to be a part of movies and TV, not the other way around.

  Jay Baruchel

  Mom, Grateful, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's something I want to do going forward - make a movie that is commercial and universal and will play in any movie theater or living room in the States or the UK, but is definitively Canadian. I don't think there's such a thing as prohibitively Canadian.

  Jay Baruchel

  Thinking, Play, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

  Jay Baruchel

  War, World, Canada

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before they get out of bed on their laptop or when they get home from going out and before they go to sleep. People make shows part of their daily routine, and that makes them take ownership of it. If you're so arrogant as to call yourself an artist, you can't ask for anything more than that.

  Jay Baruchel

  Sleep, Home, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Regardless of how insane it might be, when you dig somebody you just met and you send that first text, goddamn, it's an eternity before you get the reply back.

  Jay Baruchel

  Insane, Might, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• At one time or another, everyone's had the rom-com itch that needs to be scratched.

  Jay Baruchel

  Needs, One Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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.

• My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

  Jay Baruchel

  Vanity, Narcissism, Never Let Me Go

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

• 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.

• I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.

  Jay Baruchel

  Ideas, Would Be, Stuff

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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