Quotes by Steve Carell

Steve Carell

‘Anchorman’… is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

Anchorman

Grounded

Heart

[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.

Character

Laughing

Wife

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.

Blood

Heart

Mean

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Actors

Magician

Performers

An office is a place to… live life to the fullest. To the max. To… an office is a place where dreams come true.

Dream

Live Life

Office

Anything nice that’s said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

Nice

Said

Who I Am

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.

Hurt

Kids

Mistake

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.

Mannerisms

People

Too Much

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.

Anchorman

Fake

Guy

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

Astronaut

Men

Want

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Able

About Success

Acting

Action

Actors

Adults

Advice

Always Trying

Anchorman

Anomalies

Appreciate

Artist

Aspect

Astronaut

Awkward

Bars

Beautiful

Believe

Best Things

Bird

Blood

Book

Boys

Brain

Burgers

Care

Careers

Cases

Cell Phone

Cells

Challenges

Character

Chicago

Children

Choices

Church

Cities

Class

Clothes

College

Comedian

Comedy

Compromise

Cotton Candy

Country

Couple

Crazy

Creating Things

Crush

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Quotes by Steve Carell

Steve Carell

‘Anchorman’… is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

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.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

An office is a place to… live life to the fullest. To the max. To… an office is a place where dreams come true.

Anything nice that’s said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

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.

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.

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.

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

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