Steve Carell Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Steve Carell

  Nice, Who I Am, Said

  "QA: Steve Carell goes through '20 or 25' assistants a year, snaps fingers because yelling 'too much of an effort'". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2012.

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

  Steve Carell

  Men, Want, Astronaut

  Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2010.

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• 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.

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

  Steve Carell

  Anchorman, Heart, Grounded

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• 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.

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• 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

  Eight, Smell, Space

  "Steve Carell Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• 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

  Men, Males, Relief

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children, or with a group of children, because, from time to time, you see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. It's remarkable and it does, obviously, add another dimension, literally, to the movie.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Children, Kids

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

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• 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

  Dad, Growing Up, Kids

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• 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

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

  "GET SMART On Set Interview – Steve Carell". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 29, 2008.

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• 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.

  Steve Carell

  Real, Order, Actors

  "Steve Carell Says Comedy Has Become 'Uber-Cynical,' 'Borderline Mean'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  "Steve Carell Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• 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

  Icons, Masters, Remakes

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

  Steve Carell

  Character, Interesting, Effort

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

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• 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

  Talking, Wife, Why Now

  "Steve Carell learns to love his first time". www.today.com. August 17, 2005.

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

  Steve Carell

  Always Trying, People, Laughing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2005.

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• 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

  Talking, Years, Trying

  "‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’: Steve Carell Talks Divorce, Infidelity In New Film". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2011.

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• 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

  Two, Cities, Careers

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• When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Taken, Writing

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• You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, Years, Turkeys

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• 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.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Real, Character

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• 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

  Mean, Wife, Done

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