Steve Carell Quotes

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• 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…
• For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
• Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.
• How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
• I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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.
• I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.
• I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.
• Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
• I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some…
• Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.
• Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.
• 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.…
• 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…
• I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.
• Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
• 'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.
• Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

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