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

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?"

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 kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.