230 Quotes by Steve Carell

You're telling me I have a gift for the pathetic. I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

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.

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.

You never really know what the camera is picking up in a scene -- or even where it is. There are stealth shots that surprise us all the time.

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

This is the most surreal moment for me ever,

The BBC show is iconic, and you can't set that as a goal. All we tried to do was make a funny show based on the template, which is hilarious. And that was really our only goal.

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.

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