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.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.

Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

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

My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was Caroselli and it was changed in the mid 50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name Caroselli.

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.