Steve Carell Quotes

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.

Steve Carell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 16, 1963

Topics

LifeThinkRealityDoingYouWant

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Jesse Ventura

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Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

Jeremy London

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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Max Eastman

MindStartProcessYouGoalPlay

All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.

Michael Douglas

SciencePicturesPlayScience Fiction

My eldest daughter's been to a few sets of mine and gets spoiled when she's doing her nails, her hair. Though more often than not, you bring them to set, and they realize the filming process is pretty boring.

Tom Ellis

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I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Michael Lehmann

ThinkBetterLogicYouJokesBreak

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.

Miranda Otto

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Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.

Chris Gethard

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I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time.

David Thewlis

TimeYoungActorWildOutGoing

I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

Bonnie Raitt

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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

Sung Kang

WorldBelieveBetterPlaceSometimes

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