Steve Carell Quotes

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

I was 42 when I started to make my living as an actor.

I've been an actor since I was 18. So that's my proper job. But I was not a very successful actor, if you consider being able to afford your rent successful. I did lots of old people's tours; reminiscence tours.

Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

When you're lucky enough to pay your bills through acting, staying healthy and fit is part of the job.

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.