230 Quotes by Steve Carell

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anything nice that’s said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.