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.

Jay Baruchel

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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.

Jay Baruchel

next-day night thinking

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.

Jay Baruchel

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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.

Jay Baruchel

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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.

Jay Baruchel

shells eggs facts

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

Jay Baruchel

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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.

Jay Baruchel

shoes play trying

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.

Jay Baruchel

guy gone home

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

Jay Baruchel

plans want laughing

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

Jay Baruchel

acting long believe

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.

Jay Baruchel

proud home jobs

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.

Jay Baruchel

hockey dad fighting

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.

Jay Baruchel

beautiful mean thinking

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.

Jay Baruchel

reading sports drama

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

Jay Baruchel

underdog growing-up class

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.

Jay Baruchel

insane might firsts

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

Jay Baruchel

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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.

Jay Baruchel

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

Jay Baruchel

canada would-be jobs

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.

Jay Baruchel

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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.

Jay Baruchel

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