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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.
Steve Carell
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Steve Carell
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 16
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Massachusetts
Steven John Steve Carell
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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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I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
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Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.
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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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There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.
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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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That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.
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Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.
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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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I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.
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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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I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
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People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.
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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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