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 CeraI spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.
Michael CeraWhen 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 CeraI 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 CeraThe 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.
Michael CeraBaseball 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