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. – Steve Carell
People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine’s Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, ‘I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.’ And I didn’t sign my name. – Steve Carell
Style advice? Always wear clothes… that are… clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled. – Steve Carell
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.’ – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. – Steve Carell
I think in most relationships that have problems, there’s fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that’s shared. And it’s not just one person making amends. – Steve Carell
I remember my wife wanted me to go see ‘Contagion,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?’ I mean, I’ll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
I’m not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don’t have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma. – Steve Carell
I don’t think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent ‘edgy.’ I think ‘edgy’ can mean a lot of different things. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids. – Steve Carell
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. – Steve Carell
I don’t feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else’s writing. – Steve Carell
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. – Steve Carell
You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs. – Steve Carell
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. – Steve Carell
I’ll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I’m just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do. – Steve Carell