Steve Carell Quotes

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.

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

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".

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

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

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

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

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

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.

An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.

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.

Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.

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

Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

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

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.

Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

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.

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

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.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

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

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.

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

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.

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

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.

The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.

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.

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.

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

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.

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