Steve Carell (Steven John Carell) Quotes
You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.
Quotes to Explore
-
My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
-
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
-
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
-
I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
-
The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
-
Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
-
I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-
When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
-
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
-
When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.
-
I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.
-
There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
-
I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
-
I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
-
Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.
-
Whatever God wants is fine by me. . . . I've had the very best life. I have tasted beauty
-
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
-
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
-
But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.
-
You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.
