Quotes by Steve Carell

About Steve Carell:

Steven John Carell is an American actor, comedian, director, producer and writer. After a five-year stint on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Carell found greater fame for playing Michael Scott on the American version of The Office. He has also starred in lead roles in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Get Smart, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The Way, Way Back, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. Carell has also voiced characters in the animated films Over the Hedge, Horton Hears a Who!, Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2. Carell was nominated as "America's funniest man" in Life magazine, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series for his work on The Office.
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Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Steve Carell

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

Because I went from the 'Daily Show' where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to 'Bruce Almighty' where I played a news guy, to 'Anchorman' where I played a news guy, now I'm... yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.

Steve Carell

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

Steve Carell

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

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

Steve Carell

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

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

Steve Carell

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

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

Steve Carell

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

Steve Carell

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

Steve Carell

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

Steve Carell

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.

Steve Carell

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.

Steve Carell

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

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

Steve Carell

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

Steve Carell

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 yo...

Steve Carell

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

Steve Carell

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

Steve Carell

Author Bio

  • NameSteve Carell
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • AliasesSteven John "Steve" Carell; Steven John Carell
  • BornAugust 16, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsGolden Globe Award For Best Actor – Television Series Musical Or Comedy; Writers Guild Of America Award