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Steve Carell Inspirational Quotes (93)

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I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.
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We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.
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I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone.
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Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.
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It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
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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.
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I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.
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Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.
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Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.
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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.
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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.
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If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.
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People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.
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I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.
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For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.
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How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
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High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.
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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.
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There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.
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You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.
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I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.
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Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
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I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.
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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.
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