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" Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be. "
Steve Carell
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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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Plan
Master
" You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else. "
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" Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. "
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" 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
" Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time. "
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" There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement. "
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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 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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" Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv. "
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" I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma. "
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" Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did. "
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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. "
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" I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done. "
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" 'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love. "
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" You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality. "
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" When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun. "
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" Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered. "
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