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" It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort. "
Steve Carell
You
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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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" I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad. "
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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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" I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends. "
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" How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking. "
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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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" 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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Body
Brain
" You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?' "
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" 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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Mouth
Pressure
" 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
" Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to. "
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Why
Nothing
Now
" Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable. "
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Mistakes
Makes
Flawed
" 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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Family
Think
People
" 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. "
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Control
You
Writing
" 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. "
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Jerk
Success
Level
" 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. "
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Think
You
Try
" 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. "
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Seen
Like
Most
" I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle. "
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Think
Middle
Right
" 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. "
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Show
Daily
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" Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid. "
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Underestimate
Children
Stupid
" You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs. "
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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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Family
New York
" Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. "
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Play
Reading
Imagination
" What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms? "
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Craving
Worms
Real
" 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 think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny. "
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Funny
Play
Think
" 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
" 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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" 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. "
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Chicago
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College