I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
Steve CarellWhenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.
Steve CarellIt's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
Steve CarellChildren are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
Steve CarellI look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.
Steve CarellWell, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didnโt have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carellโs character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.
Steve Carell