Steve Carell
Steve Carell
Steven John "Steve" Carell is an American actor, comedian, director, producer and writer. After a five-year stint on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Carell found greater fame for playing Michael Scott on the American version of The Office, on which he also worked as an occasional writer and director. He has also starred in lead roles in the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Evan Almighty, Get Smart, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone and The Way, Way Back. He...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 August 1962
CityConcord, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!
Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
The BBC show is iconic, and you can't set that as a goal. All we tried to do was make a funny show based on the template, which is hilarious. And that was really our only goal.
It's really a comedy about all these people who are looking for the loves of their lives, and struggling to find happiness during this pursuit,
I had no idea it would be as painful as it was, ... It really stung.
I'm telling people that I lost it at 17, only because it sounds like a good age. I made a deal with my wife before the movie came out that I wouldn't say.
It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.
So, at least the way I saw it, those first six episodes, we were very new as characters to this documentary crew, so we were more awkward with the crew ... And now that the crew has been there for a while, we're sort of getting used to them and playing to them and getting a little more confident in terms of how we use the camera.
Evan Almighty' is sort of a continuation of that ('Bruce Almighty') story. My character is the same guy I played in 'Bruce Almighty,' and as it is now, I am elected to Congress. God visits me while I'm a congressman, and it unfolds from there.
I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.
The very first thing we talked about was tone,
Once you have all those emotional aspects in line and you're in sync with the other person, then you find out what it really is and how great it can be, ... putting the cart before the horse, and you can probably make a pun out of that, as well.
Ah, yes, the chest hair-waxing scene, ... That was 100% real - complete with real pain.