88+ Steve Carell Quotes (Funny, Versatile And Iconic)

Steve Carell is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for his role as Michael Scott on the US version of The Office, and for his roles in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss Sunshine, and Foxcatcher. He has also starred in Anchorman, Date Night, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Top 10 Steve Carell Quotes

1. When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.
2. Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?
3. Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".
4. This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.
5. I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.
6. I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.
7. I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.
8. Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.
9. An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.
10. 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.

Steve Carell Short Quotes

• In my wildest dreams i never thought- well, I never thought I'd work
• People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.
• One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.
• I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.
• I'm very fast. I'm like Forest Gump, except ... I am not an idiot!
• I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: "It's the man from TV!"
• You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.
• People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.
• What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?
• Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.

Steve Carell Famous Quotes And Sayings

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. — Steve Carell

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.' — Steve Carell

Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm. — Steve Carell

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality. — Steve Carell

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered. — Steve Carell

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently. — Steve Carell

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

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. — Steve Carell

Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at. — Steve Carell

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. — Steve Carell

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away. — Steve Carell

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information. — Steve Carell

When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you. — Steve Carell

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are. — 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

I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor, it was just to be an actor, not necessarily a comedic actor. I wasn't that guy who struck out with women so he became really funny, and that's when the women started to like him. — Steve Carell

I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character. — Steve Carell

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. — Steve Carell

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be. — Steve Carell

Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time. — Steve Carell

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal. — Steve Carell

I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine. — Steve Carell

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful. — Steve Carell

The only time I set the bar low is for limbo. — Steve Carell

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me. — Steve Carell

I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. — Steve Carell

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. — Steve Carell

It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke. — Steve Carell

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny. — Steve Carell

Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that. — Steve Carell

You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing. — Steve Carell

I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain. — Steve Carell

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime. — Steve Carell

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. — Steve Carell

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised. — Steve Carell

As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own mannerisms, or beyond that even what makes any one thing funny to people, I really ascribe to that that if you start deconstructing it too much, it is immediately not funny. — Steve Carell

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that. — Steve Carell

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with. — Steve Carell

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day. — Steve Carell

Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded. — Steve Carell

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny. — Steve Carell

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing. — Steve Carell

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. — Steve Carell

In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth. — Steve Carell

I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad. — Steve Carell

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well. — Steve Carell

I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day. — Steve Carell

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake. — Steve Carell

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. — Steve Carell

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk. — 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

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 am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun. — Steve Carell

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is. — Steve Carell

[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy. — Steve Carell

For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic. — Steve Carell

It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood. — Steve Carell

I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with. — Steve Carell

Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad? — 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

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. — Steve Carell

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh. — Steve Carell

We always spend the summer together. My wife and kids, we always go back to Massachusetts and spend the summer there near where my wife and I both grew up. I wasn't willing to sacrifice the summer to go elsewhere. — Steve Carell

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more. — Steve Carell

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy. — Steve Carell

People just like to be on camera. There's a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It's sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it. — Steve Carell

I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways. — Steve Carell

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. — Steve Carell

Life Lessons by Steve Carell

1. Steve Carell has taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be.
2. He has also shown us that it is possible to be successful in multiple areas of the entertainment industry, from comedy to drama.
3. Finally, he has demonstrated the importance of being humble and staying grounded despite achieving success.