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" I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way. "
Steve Carell
Know
Fantasy
Beauty
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" 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 it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way. "
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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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" Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything. "
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Never
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" I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. "
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Comedy
Talking
" I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her. "
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Meal
Love
Never
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Say
Pretty
" Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool. "
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Who
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" For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. "
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Just
Life
" Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star. "
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Star
Being
Action
" You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else. "
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Else
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" I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler. "
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Guy
Vegas
Crazy
" You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing. "
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Love
You
Children
" 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 an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth. "
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Change
Mouth
Pressure
" 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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Myself
Give
" 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
" What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms? "
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" 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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" Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. "
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" 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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" Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. "
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Me
Nothing
" Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal. "
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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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Fail
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" Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am. "
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Nice
Anything
" I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful. "
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Successful
Success