Jay Baruchel Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.
• I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just…
• 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…
• I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
• Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
• Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
• No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.
• There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.
• You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
• I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire,…
• I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected…
• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically…
• 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…
• I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been…
• I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.
• Well, basically I started when I was 12 years old in Montreal doing different Canadian children shows, which amounts to basically relative obscurity in terms…
• I just want to be in movies that I would go see. Plain simple and that's worked for me so far because like basically the…

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