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Jay Baruchel, born on April 9, 1982, is a talented actor from Canada. Known for his unique sense of humor and exceptional acting skills, he has made a name for himself in the film and television industry.

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“I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.”

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“I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.”

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“I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.”

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“I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.”

Knows Should Talking Bunch Ads Smack Chagrin

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“Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.”

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“I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.”

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“I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.”

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“My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.”

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“I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.”

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“In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.”

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“At one time or another, everyone's had the rom-com itch that needs to be scratched.”

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“People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.”

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“You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you can, you want to try to do something that people haven't done before and give people something that they haven't seen.”

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“Regardless of how insane it might be, when you dig somebody you just met and you send that first text, goddamn, it's an eternity before you get the reply back.”

Firsts Might Mets Eternity Insane

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“What I love about [TV] is this: It's a specific thing to be able to tell a satisfying, rewarding story in less than 25 minutes. Not everyone can pull that off. There's something really cool about giving lit people a bunch of little mini movies.”

People Giving Littles Stories Able Minutes Tvs Bunch Satisfying Lit Really Cool

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“There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before they get out of bed on their laptop or when they get home from going out and before they go to sleep. People make shows part of their daily routine, and that makes them take ownership of it. If you're so arrogant as to call yourself an artist, you can't ask for anything more than that.”

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“Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.”

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“It's something I want to do going forward - make a movie that is commercial and universal and will play in any movie theater or living room in the States or the UK, but is definitively Canadian. I don't think there's such a thing as prohibitively Canadian.”

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“When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the best film school in the world." I'm incredibly grateful for the career I've had, but I was an actor to be a part of movies and TV, not the other way around.”

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“I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.”

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“What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.”

Special Unwind Special Things

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“My mom said to me when I was a little kid, "You don't have to hate your job. Just because you see all these unhappy grown-ups doesn't mean you have to be one of them." She said, "Find something that you would do for free and find a way to get paid to do it." That's been my guiding principle.”

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“If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.”

Ifs Want Laughing Plans

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“I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.”

Facts Assuming Eggs Chickens Shells

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“Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.”

People World Giving Art

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“If you know what you want and you hire people that can do it, there's no reason it should be arduous and torturous. I wanted everyone to enjoy themselves on my set and want to be there, to take ownership of it and pitch ideas to me and know that this is their flick.”

People Reason Enjoy Ownership

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“I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.”

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“I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.”

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“I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.”

Home Able Jobs Proud Convince Take Me

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“I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.”

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“I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.”

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“For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.”

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“I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.”

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“If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.”

Ifs Would Be Jobs Canada

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“Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.”

Believe Long Wanted Acting Directors

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“Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.”

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“No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.”

Doe Comfortable Resumes

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“There's a chunk of myself in every part I play...”

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“You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.”

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“I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.”

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“I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.”

People Thinking Mean Said Beautiful Wonderful Tomorrow Connected Massive Retiring Nerd Wonderful Life Goons

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“The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.”

Guy Fighting House Boys Taught Grew Dad Grew Up Tough Raised My Dad Connected Hockey Tough Guy

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About the Author

Born: April 9, 1982
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 42

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