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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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Steve Carell
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 16
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Massachusetts
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A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.
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Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.
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I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.
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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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In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
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Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.
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It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
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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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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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I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.
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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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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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I’m not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don’t have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.
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Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.
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Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, I will be a comedic actor. I just thought, I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.
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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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Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
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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 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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