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.

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

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.

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

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

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.