I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.

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

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I feel like I'm still doing something constructive.

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

God, middle age is an unending insult.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather be. In the middle.

Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.

Democracy is always frustrating.

This is tough but CHERUB's are tougher

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.