Steve Carell Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.”

“For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.”

“When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun.”

“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.”

“Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.”

“For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.”

“I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.”

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

“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.”

“'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.”