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

Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell’s character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.

I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.

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

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

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.

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.