Steve Carell famous quotes

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
-- Steve Carell

#Inspirational #Laughing #Feels

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

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you.
-- Steve Carell

#Ears #Said #Vans

[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, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.
-- Steve Carell

#Character #Laughing #Wife

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
-- Steve Carell

#Actors #Magician #Performers

I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.
-- Steve Carell

#Country #Usa #Want

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
-- Steve Carell

#Successful #Thinking #Waiting

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.
-- Steve Carell

#Laughing #People #Joy

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.
-- Steve Carell

#Mean #Heart #Blood

People just like to be on camera. There's a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It's sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it.
-- Steve Carell

#Thinking #People #Drug

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
-- Steve Carell

#Burgers #Fancy #Joints

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 the whole joke.
-- Steve Carell

#People #Trying #Harder

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 common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.
-- Steve Carell

#Thinking #Order #Faults

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
-- Steve Carell

#Nice #People #Fringe

From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.
-- Steve Carell

#Dog #Corn #Bananas

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.
-- Steve Carell

#Thinking #Lazy #Driven

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.
-- Steve Carell

#Moving #Character #Games

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.
-- Steve Carell

#Sexy #Play #Tubas

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?'
-- Steve Carell

#Character #Thinking #Laughing

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

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

#Thinking #People #Secret

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.
-- Steve Carell

#Years #Way #Six

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.
-- Steve Carell

#School #Boys #High School

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.
-- Steve Carell

#Drama #Order #People

Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.
-- Steve Carell

#Trying #Saving #Cases

There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.
-- Steve Carell

#Thinking #Rooms #Saws

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.
-- Steve Carell

#Voice #Done #Actors

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.
-- Steve Carell

#Children #Kids #Thinking

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
-- Steve Carell

#Reading #Book #Play

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