Top 35 Michael Cera Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Michael Cera

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

— Michael Cera

3. “When you’re 12, a 12-year-old girl is so out of your league, because they have no interest in you. You’re like 10 years younger. You’re 2 to them.”

— Michael Cera

4. “Hey, lady, those are some sexy-ass extensions. I guess you wont mind if I extend to you a personal invitation to party with me one-on-one in a scary motel room.”

— Michael Cera

5. “The thing is, I really can’t relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way – an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don’t listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.”

— Michael Cera

6. “I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.”

— Michael Cera

7. “I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.”

— Michael Cera

8. “I’m not stereotypically Canadian. I don’t really follow hockey. I don’t feel like anything other than myself, basically.”

— Michael Cera

9. “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.”

— Michael Cera

10. “Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn’t know.”

— Michael Cera

11. “Acting is such a weird job.”

— Michael Cera

12. “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.”

— Michael Cera

13. “My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.”

— Michael Cera

14. “Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you’re spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you’re making good choices and you’re not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.”

— Michael Cera

15. “When you’re 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you’re still really depending on the people around you. You can’t drive, and you can’t support yourself. You can’t legally be responsible for yourself.”

— Michael Cera

16. “I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.”

— Michael Cera

17. “I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.”

— Michael Cera

18. “If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.”

— Michael Cera

19. “My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.”

— Michael Cera

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

— Michael Cera

21. “I don’t think anyone cares whether you’re working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.”

— Michael Cera

22. “It’s great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made.”

— Michael Cera

23. “Things move so quickly on set. When you’re about to do another take and you have a minute to figure out what you’re doing, you just kind of determine how you’re going to do it on the spot.”

— Michael Cera

24. “Normally what I do is I’ll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I’m done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.”

— Michael Cera

25. “I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy – things you absolutely have to see.”

— Michael Cera

26. “I worry more about something that isn’t working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.”

— Michael Cera

27. “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?””

— Michael Cera

28. “Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren’t in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren’t worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.”

— Michael Cera

29. “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.”

— Michael Cera

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

— Michael Cera

31. “Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren’t bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.”

— Michael Cera

32. “It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you’re waiting for something, it seems to take longer.”

— Michael Cera

33. “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.”

— Michael Cera

34. “When I was 16, I was working on ‘Arrested Development.’ My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with school while doing the show and trying to be around all those people on the show, as much as I could.”

— Michael Cera

35. “I’ve been wanting to do a play for years.”

— Michael Cera

36. “I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.”

— Michael Cera