In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
Before he was an actor he worked in the mailing industry.
Steve performed with the Chicago Troupe of The Second City in 1991.
While on Saturday Night Live he did several voices for The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
One of Carell's first jobs as a teen was working at a store, 24, in the town of Maynard, MA. The "24" store in that location is no longer and has been converted into a Dunkin Donuts.
Steve is rumoured to have received five million dollars for his work on Evan Almighty.
In 1996, Steve worked as a writer and costar on ABC's Dana Carvey Show. The series, which Carell claims "seemed to be a comedy brain trust," lasted just eight episodes before being pulled by the network due to low ratings.
In 2005, Entertainment Weekly named Carell the #2 Entertainer of the Year in their annual issue that commemorates the year's biggest names and best performances. Steve was second only to the cast of Lost.
Entertainment Weekly did a cover story on Steve Carell and The Office for their February 24, 2006 issue, # 865. The headline read, "Steve Carell: Box Office King. TV Star. Is there anything the "Office" Boss can't do?"
At the 2006 Academy Awards, Steve Carell presented the award for Best Makeup with friend Will Ferrell. The two performed an uproarious skit, which involved both of them "applying their own makeup." The men's faces, painted either very pale (in Carell's case) or very smudged (in Ferrell's), was used to show the importance of the makeup artists in Hollywood. It was one of the highlights of the rather predictable evening.
On July 9, 2004, two films that Carell was featured in, Anchorman and Sleepover, opened in the United States. This coincidence is extremely rare.
Carell is of Italian ancestry, with his original family name being Carello.
Carell married current wife Nancy Walls in 1995.
Carell will soon star in Dan in Real Life opposite stand-up comic Dane Cook. The movie starts shooting in mid-2006.
Carell was a high-profile star at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival with his independent movie Little Miss Sunshine, which he starred in alongside Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette.
Carell quietly brought himself to the forefront of American minds with his breakout roles in such movies as Bruce Almighty, Anchorman, and Bewitched.
Carell earned a Writer's Guild of America nomination for his work on The 40-Year-Old Virgin for Best Original Screenplay.
Steve performed with the Chicago troupe of The Second City in 1991.
Steve attended Denison University, a college in Granville, Ohio (near Columbus), the same school that Jennifer Garner attended.
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