Steve Carell Quotes
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.
The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.
Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
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.
The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.
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.
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.
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.
Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.
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.
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.
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.
I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.
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.
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.
I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.
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.
For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.
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.
People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.
You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.
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.
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.
Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
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.
It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.
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.
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.
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.
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
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.
I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: "It's the man from TV!"
I’m not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don’t have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.
I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.
It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.
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.
How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
