Quotes from Steve Carell

Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

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.

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.

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.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

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.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

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.

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.

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.

Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.

You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

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.

Life's a bitch. Then you marry one.

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

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.