Steve Carell
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was Caroselli and it was changed in the mid 50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name Caroselli.Collection: Father
Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.Collection: Girl
In my wildest dreams i never thought- well, I never thought I'd workCollection: Dream
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, "I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer." And I didn't sign my name.Collection: Crush
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.Collection: Missing
Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.Collection: Men
As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they’re going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.Collection: Hurt
As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own mannerisms, or beyond that even what makes any one thing funny to people, I really ascribe to that that if you start deconstructing it too much, it is immediately not funny.Collection: People
I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.Collection: Drama
I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.Collection: Heart
I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.Collection: Gun
I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.Collection: Thinking
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. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood.Collection: Thinking
We always spend the summer together. My wife and kids, we always go back to Massachusetts and spend the summer there near where my wife and I both grew up. I wasn't willing to sacrifice the summer to go elsewhere.Collection: Summer
When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.Collection: Hate
That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.Collection: Interesting
I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.Collection: Shoes
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 just to be an actor, not necessarily a comedic actor. I wasn't that guy who struck out with women so he became really funny, and that's when the women started to like him.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Anchorman
People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.Collection: People
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.Collection: Thinking
An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.Collection: Dream
I'm very fast. I'm like Forest Gump, except ... I am not an idiot!Collection: Forests
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.Collection: Sexy
They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children, or with a group of children, because, from time to time, you see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. It's remarkable and it does, obviously, add another dimension, literally, to the movie.Collection: Fun
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: "It's the man from TV!"Collection: Kids
High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.Collection: School
I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it’s a different world.Collection: Talking
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.Collection: Reading
I’m a fun dad, but I don’t know if I’m the fun, crazy dad.Collection: Fun
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
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