Steve Carell Quotes

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

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

The only time I set the bar low is for limbo.

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.

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.

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.

Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?

Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.

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.

Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.

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.

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

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.

Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.

Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?