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

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 think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.

Innocence isn't something we lose, but realise we don't need.

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts

It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.