Steve Carell Quotes

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

Class clowns become actors.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he's very funny, and I've seen him be serious and terrific.