I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor,… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist,… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago,… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
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.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Im not funny. Im actually quite a boring person to meet one-on-one. That seems to shock quite a few people who I run into… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family,… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
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.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
After enjoying a tuna fish sandwich, my seven year old son kindly asked me to 'Change my breath.' — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
![“[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best…” quote by Steve Carell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/011/steve-carell-2000_actors_and-on-going-from-character-to-leading-a_2135330.jpg)
