Latest Steve Carell Quotes from Interviews

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• The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.

  Steve Carell

  Giving

  "Steve Carell Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

• 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

  Thinking, Lakes, People

  "Steve Carell, Allison Janney Interview, The Way Way Back". www.moviesonline.ca. November 13th, 2017.

• 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

  Hate, Character, Thinking

  "Steve Carell, Allison Janney Interview, The Way Way Back". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. July, 2013.

• 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

  Summer, Kids, Sacrifice

  "Steve Carell, Allison Janney Interview, The Way Way Back". MoviesOnline interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 13, 2017.

• 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

  Interesting, Expectations, Way

  "Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing "The Big Short". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. December 22, 2015.

• 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

  Shoes, Waiting, Doe

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. July 31, 2006.

• 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

  Kids, Class, Guy

  "How Steve Carell Spent His Summer Vacation". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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

  Steve Carell

  Girl, Shy, Scared

  "How Steve Carell Spent His Summer Vacation". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

• 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

  Fun, Order, People

  "How Steve Carell Spent His Summer Vacation". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

• 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

  People, Laughing, Different

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Awkward

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". Scholastic Interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

• 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

  Thinking, People, Ego

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

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

  Steve Carell

  People, Brain, Comedy

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

• 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

  Drama, Believe, Cutting

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

• 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

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

  "Steve Carell Talks About Dan in Real Life". MovieWeb Interview, www.movieweb.com. October 22, 2007.

• Well, it might have been if I'd had success earlier in life, but having success that much later meant I was far more grounded when it came. The last few years of my life have just been surreal and after a lifetime of disappointment and heartache and rejection, I still don't believe this is all actually happening. I'm extremely grateful for my success - I just never expect it to last and my motto, if I have one, is just put your head down and do the job.

  Steve Carell

  Jobs, Disappointment, Grateful

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Hurt, Mistake, Kids

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview withJack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  Character, People, Office

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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

  People, Too Much, Mannerisms

  "Steve Carell - Get Smart". Groucho Interview, grouchoreviews.com. February 23, 2008.

• 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

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Steve Carell On Anchorman 2". Interview with Elysha Krupp, uk.askmen.com. April 29, 2014.

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

  Steve Carell

  Laughing, Compromise, Ability

  "Steve Carell On Anchorman 2". Interview with Elysha Krupp, uk.askmen.com. April 29, 2014.

• 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

  Choices, One Day, Ends

  "Steve Carell On Anchorman 2". Interview with Elysha Krupp, uk.askmen.com. April 29, 2014.

• 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

  Gun, Thinking, Lucky

  "Steve Carell On Anchorman 2". Interview with Elysha Krupp, uk.askmen.com. April29, 2014.

• I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Moving, Character

  "Steve Carell Interview CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 28, 2011.

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

  Steve Carell

  Wife, Challenges, Realistic

  "Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner Talk ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, Working with Dick Van Dyke & Miguel Arteta, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2014.