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Michael Cera, born on June 7, 1988, is a talented American actor known for his unique sense of humor and acting skills. He gained prominence in the youth comedy genre and has grown into a Hollywood star. Cera's notable works include 'Superbad', 'Arrested Development', and 'Life of Pi'.

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“There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.”

Thinking Littles Hands Majors Dues Corporations Stubborn Little Money

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

Feels Stuff Forget Worry

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“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.”

Feels Real Hard Comedy Figures Tricks Hard Things Real You

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“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.”

Kind Ideas Done Song Records Discipline

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

Ifs Want Acting Adults Treated

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“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.”

People Ifs Want Stills Support Responsible Being Responsible Sixteen

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

Knows Years Wish Brat

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“There are a lot of slutty girls in Canada. Eleven-year-old sluts.”

Years Girl Canada Eleven

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“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.”

Years Girl Interest League

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“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.”

Long Made Seems Waiting Focus Long Time Waiting For Something

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“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.”

Way Want Bigs Decision Careers Careful Changing Your Life

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“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.”

Want Ends Reason Choices Actors Projects Careful Spending Be Careful Being Real Influential Choices You Make Wrong Reasons Good Choices Making Good Choices

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“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.”

Thinking Should Play Character Sleep Roles Streets Wall Stones Idiot Turned Down Never Sleep

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

Age Born Canada Zero

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“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.”

Made Whole Choices Decision Attention Focus

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“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.”

Ideas Sometimes Actors Decision Situation Alive Bounds Spots Making Decisions

Author:Michael Cera

“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.”

Kind Ends Moments Directors Findings Caught Rhythm Caught Up Rehearsal

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“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.”

Kind Moving Minutes Figures Determine Spots Doing You

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

Comedy Classic My Time Catching Catching Up

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“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.”

Ifs Way Want Certain Turns Actors Directors Direct

Author:Michael Cera

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

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

Matter Problem Situation Components Invigorating

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“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.”

Years Kind Young Guy Left Player Middle Shapes Ocean Baseball League Retiring Floating Baseball Player Young Guys Adrift Good Years

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“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.”

Actors Player Heard Baseball Dry Spells Bob Baseball Player

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“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.”

Thinking Whole Care Support Luxury Lots Of Money

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

Long Long Time Dvds

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“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.”

Feels Writing Stills Crazy Constructive

Author:Michael Cera

“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?"”

Writing Self Easy Doubt Caught Caught Up Easy To Get Self-doubt

Author:Michael Cera

“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.”

Ifs Mind Rooms Party Scary Sexy Ass Hey Extensions Invitations One On One Motels

Author:Michael Cera

“Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.”

Thinking Years Firsts Made Three Felt Millions Development Proud Safe Seasons Nine Episodes Arrested Thirteen

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“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.”

Ifs Want Effort Spots Saving Bother

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“Acting is such a weird job.”

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

Broke Noses Concussions

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

Play Goes On Piano

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

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

Father Feet Machines Wide Copies Xerox

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“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.”

Littles Parent Painter Good Writers Little Sister Other Sister

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“Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.”

Men Felt Old Man

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

Trying Stories Actors Picks Good Story

Author:Michael Cera

“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.”

May Whole Feelings School Gone High School Vulnerable Confused Adolescence

Author:Michael Cera

“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.”

Ifs Way Feels Ideas Age My Own Talking My Friends Superiors Relate No Idea Inferiors New Music Secluded

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“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.”

People Trying Shows School Memories Development Arrested

Author:Michael Cera

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Born: June 7, 1988
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 42

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