Steve Carell

“If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, b...”

“I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.”

“I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and an...”

“My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be con...”

“I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'”

“I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed in the pop female category.”

“Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.”

“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 Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.”

“I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.”

“There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew i...”

“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.”

“Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.”

“Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.”

“I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal wi...”

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