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 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.

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.

Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.