Steve Carell (Steven John Carell) Quotes

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

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• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Father
  • Play
  • Right

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

  

  Questlove
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watching

• I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Play
  • Because
  • Puzzle

• The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Bad
  • Play

• I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Play
  • Dance

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Play
  • Role
  • Matters

• I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Play
  • Pressure
  • Tomorrow

• I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Play
  • Like
  • Piano

• I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Play
  • Like
  • Dare

• I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • People
  • Game
  • Play

• I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Play
  • Instruments

• Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Scared

• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  

  E. B. White
  • Play
  • Fall
  • Find

• Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • Plan

• I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Dad

• If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Something
  • Someone
  • Bugging

• Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Problem

• I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better storytellers than I am. But the space that I occupy of storytelling about finance and economics is - more people want it than can do it.

  

  David Plotz
  • People
  • Economics
  • Storytelling

• Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Play
  • Creating
  • Watching