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
It was tough to find the right tone, ... The first time, it was way too graphic. It pulled people out of the movie.
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'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's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.
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.
Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.
How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.
I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.
People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.
As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own mannerisms, or beyond that even what makes any one thing funny to people, I really ascribe to that that if you start deconstructing it too much, it is immediately not funny.
I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.
I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.