Michael Cera

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors…

— Michael Cera

There was one thing where David Cross was doing a scene and he was showing me his cutoff shorts and he throws…

— Michael Cera

When I was 16, I was working on 'Arrested Development.' My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with…

— 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…

— Michael Cera

I'm not really trying to make 'great art.'

— Michael Cera

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

— Michael Cera

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

— Michael Cera

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

— 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…

— Michael Cera

It was very cool to be a kung-fu master in a film. So yeah, I would definitely consider doing action movies full-time.…

— 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

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something,…

— Michael Cera

I enjoy LA much more than I used to. I guess it becomes more tolerable when you stay there for a bit.…

— Michael Cera

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go…

— 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…

— Michael Cera

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

— Michael Cera

Reading the pilot script, it was written in a very clear way, like the feel of the show, the mockumentary. And Mitch…

— Michael Cera

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Michael Cera

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I…

— 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…

— Michael Cera