Steve Carell Quotes

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Is it true that if you don't USE it you LOSE it?

I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.

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.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

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.

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.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?

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.

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.

In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.

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 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.

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.

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

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.

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

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.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

I hate hospitals, in my mind they are associated with sickness.

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said ... my tummy itches.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

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.

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.

'Anchorman' ... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

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.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

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.

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.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

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.

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

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.

I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad.

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley ... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

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 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.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

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.

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.

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 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.

Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.