Steve Carell Quotes

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

I try to be as normal as I can.

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.

You can't escape your face.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I decided to... just be normal.

I don't feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I'm starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.