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Jay Baruchel Biography

Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (/ˈbæruːʃɛl/; born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, comedian, director, and producer. He played Josh Greenberg in the FXX comedy television series Man Seeking Woman and played the lead character in Judd Apatow's comedy series, Undeclared. He is known for his voice role as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, and for his roles in comedy movies such as Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, Fanboys, She's Out of My League, Goon, This Is the End and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

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I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

Annoyed, Aspect, Character, Profound, Terribly

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.

Beautiful, Goon, Life, Massive, Mean, Thinking

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

Movies, Set, Storytelling, Want, Watches, Weekend

There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before they get out of bed on their laptop or when they get home from going out and before they go to sleep. People make shows part of their daily routine, and that makes them take ownership of it. If you're so arrogant as to call yourself an artist, you can't ask for anything more than that.

Artist, Call, Home, Make, Row, Sleep

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

Art, Full, Giving, Greatest, People

People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.

Among, Laughing, Majority, Pairs, People, Seven

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

Acting, Believe, Director, Long

I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

Movies, Nine, Time, Writing, Years

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

Class, Grow, Growing Up, Montreal, Underdog

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

Favorite, Heart, Leaf, Tattoo, Two

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.

Acting, Focusing, Next Day, Night, Thinking

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.

Ambition, Art, Done, Evolve, Humble, People

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

Laugh, Laughing, Make, Plan, Plans, Want

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.

Crazy, Earnest, Playing, Real, Role, Successful

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.

Firsts, Insane, Met, Might, Reply, Somebody

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Rare, Same, Special, Special Things, Unwind

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Let, Narcissism, Never Let Me Go, Vanity

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Count, Eggs, Facts, Hatched, Shells

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

Blue, Equal, Montreal, Parts, Towns

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.

Home, Jobs, Montrealer, Proud

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