Top 100 Carell's Quotes
#1. I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is.
Greg Daniels
#2. 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
#3. Steve Carell's Foxcatcher look took two hours to put on including his hairstyling and make-up. Just for comparison, it took me three hours today to prepare for my role as 'human woman'.
Tina Fey
#4. People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.
Steve Carell
#5. Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here's another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know, 'Family Guy?' I watch that because the guy is good.
Joe Flaherty
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.
Steve Carell
#17. I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad.
Steve Carell
#18. 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
#19. I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
Sam Huntington
#20. 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
#21. 'Anchorman' ... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.
Steve Carell
#22. I hate hospitals, in my mind they are associated with sickness.
Steve Carell
#23. Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.
Steve Carell
#24. I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said ... my tummy itches.
Steve Carell
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.
Steve Carell
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.
Steve Carell
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.
Steve Carell
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.
Steve Carell
#52. I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'
Steve Carell
#53. Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.
Steve Carell
#54. Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
Ben Lyons
#55. 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
#56. It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.
Steve Carell
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
Steve Carell
#63. 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
#64. I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.
Steve Carell
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
Steve Carell
#69. What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?
Steve Carell
#70. You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.
Steve Carell
#71. Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.
Lucy Punch
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
Steve Carell
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.
Steve Buscemi
#80. For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
Steve Carell
#81. 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
#82. I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.
Ryan Gosling
#83. 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
#84. I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.
Gillian Jacobs
#85. In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
Steve Carell
#86. Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.
Steve Carell
#87. Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.
Steve Carell
#88. 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
#89. I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.
Steve Carell
#90. Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
Steve Carell
#91. I watched all the Academy screeners and I wanted to slit my wrists. Whether they are good or not good, I don't know why you make Foxcatcher? I don't know why you do it. What is it giving anybody except to have Steve Carell put on a rubber nose?
Rob Cohen
#92. Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.
Steve Carell
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.
Steve Carell
#98. 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
#99. I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.
Jennifer Garner
#100. You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.
Steve Carell
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