Jay Baruchel Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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, heartbreak - it's all there.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

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 can't imagine.