Steve Carell quotes - page 2

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

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I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed in the pop female category. (Steve Carell)

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

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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.

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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)

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

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You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'

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

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

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Steve Carell

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Photo: Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0

Occupation: American Actor
Born: August 16, 1962
Quotes count: 99
Wikipedia: Steve Carell

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