I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy. — 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

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

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

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

I’m a fun dad, but I don’t know if I’m the fun, crazy dad. — 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

Six–year–olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that’s the way it should be. — 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

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. — 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

An office is a place to… live life to the fullest. To the max. To… an office is a place where dreams come true. — Steve Carell

You all took a life here today. The life of the party. — Steve Carell

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. — Steve Carell

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don’t care about being cool. — Steve Carell

You know, what’s funny to one person is not at all to someone else. — Steve Carell

It’s nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she’s just unrelentingly funny. — 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 think when someone who’s known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that’s a mistake. — 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

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

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. — Steve Carell

I’ve always enjoyed watching characters that aren’t aware that they’re doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier. — 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

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

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I’ve never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her. — Steve Carell

Anchorman’… is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love. — Steve Carell

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny. — 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

They say that when you find true love, you know within the first 24 hours. Well with Carol I knew within the first 24 minutes… of the second day that I met her. — Steve Carell

Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order. — Steve Carell

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

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it. — Steve Carell