Steve Carell Quotes

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

I don't mean to be funny.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

If possible, be funny.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

You can make fun of everything.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

Funny is when you're serious.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.