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I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor, it was just to be an actor, not necessarily a comedic actor. I wasn't that guy who struck out with women so he became really funny, and that's when the women started to like him. -- Steve Carell
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do. -- Steve Carell
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.' -- Steve Carell
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. -- Steve Carell
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject. -- Steve Carell
Style advice? Always wear clothes ... that are ... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled. -- Steve Carell
Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered. -- Steve Carell
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information. -- Steve Carell
You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing. -- Steve Carell
My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny. -- Steve Carell
Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently. -- Steve Carell
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there. -- Steve Carell
You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?' -- Steve Carell
I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done. -- Steve Carell
Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to. -- Steve Carell
There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything. -- Steve Carell
You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality. -- Steve Carell
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame. -- Steve Carell
We always spend the summer together. My wife and kids, we always go back to Massachusetts and spend the summer there near where my wife and I both grew up. I wasn't willing to sacrifice the summer to go elsewhere. -- Steve Carell
Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day. -- Steve Carell
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. -- Steve Carell
As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don't want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they're going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that. -- Steve Carell
My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad. -- Steve Carell
My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. -- Steve Carell
It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny. -- Steve Carell
We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count. -- Steve Carell
Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv. -- Steve Carell
Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn't have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell's character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto. -- Steve Carell
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way. -- Steve Carell
I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things. -- Steve Carell
I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. -- Steve Carell
It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke. -- Steve Carell
I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle. -- Steve Carell
Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. -- Steve Carell
I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends. -- Steve Carell
It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with. -- Steve Carell
As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own mannerisms, or beyond that even what makes any one thing funny to people, I really ascribe to that that if you start deconstructing it too much, it is immediately not funny. -- Steve Carell
'Anchorman' ... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love. -- Steve Carell
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints. -- Steve Carell
I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world. -- Steve Carell
I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny. -- Steve Carell
Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time. -- Steve Carell
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk. -- Steve Carell
Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool. -- Steve Carell
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!' -- Steve Carell
When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you. -- Steve Carell
Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting. -- Steve Carell
In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth. -- Steve Carell
I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun. -- Steve Carell
You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs. -- Steve Carell
I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again. -- Steve Carell
Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be. -- Steve Carell
How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley ... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking. -- Steve Carell
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.' -- Steve Carell
I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways. -- Steve Carell
It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort. -- Steve Carell
Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. -- Steve Carell
There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way. -- Steve Carell
I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone. -- Steve Carell
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. -- Steve Carell
I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing. -- Steve Carell
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood. -- Steve Carell
Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid. -- Steve Carell
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. -- Steve Carell
My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart. -- Steve Carell
I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come. -- Steve Carell
I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work. -- Steve Carell
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor ... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian. -- Steve Carell
What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms? -- Steve Carell
I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad. -- Steve Carell
I hate hospitals, in my mind they are associated with sickness. -- Steve Carell
When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is. -- Steve Carell
Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are. -- Steve Carell
I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious. -- Steve Carell
I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City. -- Steve Carell
People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy. -- Steve Carell
I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed in the pop female category. -- Steve Carell
Is it true that if you don't USE it you LOSE it? -- Steve Carell
If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back. -- Steve Carell
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. -- Steve Carell
When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth. -- Steve Carell
I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake. -- Steve Carell
I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes. -- Steve Carell
I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh. -- Steve Carell
For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well. -- Steve Carell
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while. -- Steve Carell
Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are. -- Steve Carell
I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general. -- Steve Carell
For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic. -- Steve Carell
You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else. -- Steve Carell
I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone. -- Steve Carell
Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded. -- Steve Carell
I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler. -- Steve Carell
Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable. -- Steve Carell
I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control. -- Steve Carell
Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal. -- Steve Carell
Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that. -- Steve Carell
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work. -- Steve Carell
I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma. -- Steve Carell
From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless. -- Steve Carell
Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. -- Steve Carell
Because I went from the 'Daily Show' where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to 'Bruce Almighty' where I played a news guy, to 'Anchorman' where I played a news guy, now I'm ... yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits. -- Steve Carell
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids. -- Steve Carell
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap. -- Steve Carell
Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be. -- Steve Carell
I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with. -- Steve Carell
I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife. -- Steve Carell
In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes. -- Steve Carell
Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised. -- Steve Carell
I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me. -- Steve Carell
I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said ... my tummy itches. -- Steve Carell
I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny. -- Steve Carell
I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain. -- Steve Carell
I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do. -- Steve Carell
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing. -- Steve Carell
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way. -- Steve Carell
People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky. -- Steve Carell
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime. -- Steve Carell
I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her. -- Steve Carell
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did. -- Steve Carell
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you. -- Steve Carell
You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person. -- Steve Carell
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. -- Steve Carell
I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful. -- Steve Carell
I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier. -- Steve Carell
Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am. -- Steve Carell
Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star. -- Steve Carell
The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me. -- Steve Carell
I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine. -- Steve Carell
That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are. -- Steve Carell
People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it. -- Steve Carell
People just like to be on camera. There's a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It's sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it. -- Steve Carell