Steve Carell
If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.
They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children or with a group of children because you see the kids in front of you from time to time reaching up. You see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. I think it's remarkable and it does obviously, literally, add another dimension to the movie.
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 don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.
Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
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.
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.
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.
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".Collection: Ears
I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.Collection: Wise
The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.Collection: Bars
Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.Collection: People
Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.Collection: People
The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.Collection: Giving
I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.Collection: Office
The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.Collection: Laughing
Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.Collection: Order
Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.Collection: Office
Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.Collection: Needs
I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.Collection: Fun
Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?Collection: Jesus
Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.Collection: Stupid
I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.Collection: Anchorman
Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.Collection: People
Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.Collection: Actors
I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character.Collection: Fun
Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell’s character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.Collection: Character
[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.Collection: Character
I’m not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don’t have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.Collection: Self Confidence
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: People
I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.Collection: Country
It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.Collection: Nice
I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.Collection: Fun
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, "I will be a comedic actor." I just thought, "I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get."Collection: Jobs
Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.Collection: Kids
We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Artist
For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.Collection: Wife
There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on The Daily Show, because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.Collection: Jobs
My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don’t see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn’t something to be constantly examined or picked apart.Collection: Parent
One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.Collection: People
I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.Collection: Believe
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.Collection: Technology
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.Collection: Sleep
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.Collection: Writing
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.Collection: Children