39 Quotes by Jay Baruchel

Montreal is a great town. There’s equal parts blue-collar town.

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.

There’s a chunk of myself in every part I play.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it’s because I adore movies and TV.

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