Steve Carell
Steve Carell
Steven John "Steve" 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, on which he also worked as an occasional writer and director. He has also starred in lead roles in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Evan Almighty, Get Smart, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and The Way, Way Back. He...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 August 1962
CityConcord, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.
Just the idea of him with a love interest is mind-boggling, ... I don't know how it could be handled.
I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes.
I can't imagine it getting any better than this right now. From here, it's bound to be all downhill.
He does his job just well enough to keep it. The ridiculous exploits and faux pas are just this side of lawsuit territory so he continues to ride the wave of inefficiency and lack of expertise. I don't think that's necessarily unusual that one might be very good at one job and then is promoted, and you have no proficiency whatsoever.
I always thought that if I could get on a sitcom as maybe the wacky neighbor, that would be pretty incredible.
Evan Almighty' is sort of a continuation of that ('Bruce Almighty') story. My character is the same guy I played in 'Bruce Almighty,' and as it is now, I am elected to Congress. God visits me while I'm a congressman, and it unfolds from there.
I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.
We've already shot two episodes, and I'm going back soon to shoot a third,
It was tough to find the right tone, ... The first time, it was way too graphic. It pulled people out of the movie.
It was a lot like Second City in the sense that there was a great freedom to fail there.
The very first thing we talked about was tone,
Once you have all those emotional aspects in line and you're in sync with the other person, then you find out what it really is and how great it can be, ... putting the cart before the horse, and you can probably make a pun out of that, as well.