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

Steve Carell

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Steve Carell
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 16
Actor
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Television Actor
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Massachusetts
Steven John Steve Carell
Steven John Carell
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Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.
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I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
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Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.
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I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.
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Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
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The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
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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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If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.
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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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Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
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Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.
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My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.
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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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I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
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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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