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 a hard thing to figure out.

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.

Do good even if no one is watching you and do it as if everyone is watching you.

Languages are not strangers to on another.

A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

I don't talk people into the Kingdom, I listen them into it!

Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.