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" 'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love. "
Steve Carell
Grounded
Movie
Love
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me. "
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Nature
Long
" I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes. "
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Hear
Good
Joke
" I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier. "
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" They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children or with a group of children because you see the kids in front of you from time to time reaching up. You see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. I think it's remarkable and it does obviously, literally, add another dimension to the movie. "
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" My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. "
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Community
Family
New York
" 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. "
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Mind
Body
Brain
" I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake. "
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Doing
" Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. "
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Who
Performers
Both
" Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. "
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Winning
Losing
Always
" I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful. "
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Me
Successful
Success
" I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again. "
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Work
Enough
Goal
" I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids. "
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Growing Up
Building
Name
" Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable. "
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Mistakes
Makes
Flawed
" Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered. "
Steve Carell
Appreciate
Director
Meet
" Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time. "
Steve Carell
Changes
Comedy
Fashion
" Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.' "
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Book
Thought
See
" 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. "
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Want
You
Dating
" You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person. "
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Real
Person
You
" 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. "
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Real
Myself
Give
" Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. "
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Laughing
Me
Nothing
" I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler. "
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Guy
Vegas
Crazy
" Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be. "
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Oh
About
Care
" Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. "
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Man
Want
Happen
" 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 another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame. "
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Myself
Game
You
" I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work. "
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You
Work
Think
" My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad. "
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" 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, but I tend to just let it slide off my back. "
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