Steve Carell People Quotations

It was tough to find the right tone, ... The first time, it was way too graphic. It pulled people out of the movie.

It's really a comedy about all these people who are looking for the loves of their lives, and struggling to find happiness during this pursuit,

I'm telling people that I lost it at 17, only because it sounds like a good age. I made a deal with my wife before the movie came out that I wouldn't say.

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

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

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.

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

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.

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.

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.

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.