230 Quotes by Steve Carell

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.— Michael Scott (Steve Carell), The Office, Season 2: The Fight

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

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.

In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes.

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

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.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

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.