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All Quotes by author - Steve Carell
" Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. "
Who
Performers
Both
" A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there. "
Mind
Body
Brain
" 'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love. "
Grounded
Movie
Love
" Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am. "
Who
Nice
Anything
" Because I went from the 'Daily Show' where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to 'Bruce Almighty' where I played a news guy, to 'Anchorman' where I played a news guy, now I'm... yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits. "
Show
Daily
Fake
" Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. "
Man
Want
Happen
" Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star. "
Star
Being
Action
" Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are. "
Stupid
Brain
Child
" Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently. "
Family
Think
People
" Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid. "
Underestimate
Children
Stupid
" 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. "
Seen
Like
Most
" Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting. "
Think
Normal
Be Nice
" 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. "
Bond
Cap
Feather
" Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable. "
Mistakes
Makes
Flawed
" 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. "
Career
Me
Joy
" For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. "
Better
Just
Life
" From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless. "
Work
Los Angeles
Food
" Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. "
Winning
Losing
Always
" How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking. "
Me
People
Like
" I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. "
Feel
Comedy
Talking
" 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. "
Done
Doing
Day
" 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 with every situation as they come. "
Think
You
Try
" I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing. "
Control
You
Writing
" 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. "
Time
People
Work
" I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control. "
Angry
Control
Feel Good
" I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone. "
Text
Even
Just
" I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone. "
Grow
Worry
Too Much
" 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. "
Think
Fail
Funny
" 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. "
Edgy
Think
Mean
" 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. "
Jerk
Success
Level
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