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Wikipedia Summary for Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera (Italian: [ˈtʃeːra]; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, voicing the character of Brother Bear on the children’s television show The Berenstain Bears and portraying a young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).
He has had numerous roles in United States television and film productions, including character George Michael Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and for his film roles as Evan in Superbad (2007), Paulie Bleeker in Juno (2007), Scott Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and a fictional version of himself in This Is the End (2013). He voiced Dick Grayson/Robin in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Barry (a deformed sausage) in Sausage Party (2016), and Sal Viscuso, the voice behind the announcements in Childrens Hospital.
Cera made his Broadway debut in the 2014 production of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth. For his performance in the 2018 production of Lonergan's Lobby Hero, Cera was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Cera starred in the revival of Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery.
In addition to acting, Cera is a musician, having released his debut album True That in 2014. Cera has also performed as the touring bassist for indie rock supergroup Mister Heavenly.
Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.
Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.
I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.
I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.
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?
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 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.
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.
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.
I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy -- things you absolutely have to see.
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.
Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.
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.
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
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.
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.
I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.
I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.
Acting is such a weird job.