You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

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.

Unless someone has lived your life, no one can live your dream!

No one whose steps are truly ordered by God will ever attempt to walk over another human being.

The soul of a man is strong enough to withstand any adversity.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .

The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.