Jim Carrey and Steve Carell Press Conference
What about you, Jim? Are you surprised by the kind of success you've attained?

Jim Carrey: “Well, you know, myself – it's hard to have a perspective on it from inside myself. I just kind of feel like I could be working in a factory again in, you know, a month or something like that. Loading trucks is kind of where I started out. No, honestly, I don't have perspective on it.

It's just kind of, one thing to the next. It's trying to do work, and trying to have fun with what's in front of me. I mean, even today, you know, I think to myself, you get that, ‘Ugh, it's a junket,’ kind of thing. And then I have to go to that place of, ‘I'm gonna try to enjoy every person who's in front of me in that moment, and try and live that way.’ That's what I do. So I don't really think about iconic anything. I just try to do work and have fun doing it. Hopefully that translates. But I do watch other people, like Steve, and I can sit back and go, ‘Whoa, man, that guy's good.’ And I'm much more impressed with other people. We've got an amazing cast in this.”

Steve Carell: “Yeah.”

Jim Carrey: “I mean, the people that this project gathered is kind of incredible. It's like a who's who of comedy across five generations.”

Who's who.

Jim Carrey: “Who's who, yeah, and so it's really exciting. Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and Carol Burnett… So I'm amazed by them, you know? I sit and I watch Knocked Up and I go, ‘Wow.

That's great work, man. These guys are doing incredible stuff. I wish I could be them.’ You know? It's all your perspective. Just feels good to be in it.”

Jim, since this your second foray into Dr. Seuss world, and of course, your first Steve, are there any more stories that you have a hankering to do?

Jim Carrey: “The Steve Carell Story. Hoping they'll come to me with that.”

Steve Carell: “In terms of Dr. Seuss?”

In terms of Dr. Seuss, yes.

Steve Carell: “I don't know. I'd love to do Green Eggs and Ham. I think I could do a lot with it.”

Jim Carrey: “We could work in a box for Fox.”

Steve Carell: “It does sound ridiculous to even talk about it, doesn't it? But ultimately, though, you know, you think about, ‘So you're doing Horton Hears a Who!?’ You know, it sounds sort of odd. You're in the movie version of Horton Hears a Who!. And then you see it and you say, ‘Of course.’ You know, it completely makes sense. So maybe Green Eggs and Ham is a blockbuster of the future. You never know.”

Jim Carrey: “That's an epic. That's an epic, for sure.”

Question for each of you from a kindergarten class in Pennsylvania. They want to know, Jim, how do you become an elephant? And Steve, how do you become a Who?

Jim Carrey: “Well, myself, I've thought of peanuts - peanuts on my breath. I figured I have the sweet smell of peanuts on my breath all the time. I wanted to be the type of elephant that didn't realize that he was enormous and bulky. He was lighter – light as a feather, as he puts it. He was like a dancer. He was, in his head. He's not bigger than anybody else. That's kind of where I wanted to come with that character. Is that maybe it's an inferiority complex. I don't know. But he doesn't feel like he's bigger. He could do a lot of damage if he wanted to, but he doesn't feel like he has that power. He feels equal to everybody.”

Steve Carell: “Have the kids in your class imagine their world where nothing goes wrong, ever. That everything is always happy, everyone always gets along, and everything – it's always good and the sun is always shining. And then have them imagine that something goes wrong, and how you would react to that? That's kind of what being a Who is like. Especially in this story, that's what being a Who is like. This perfect world in which nothing ever goes wrong, suddenly is turned upside down.”

In the film, Horton keeps saying, "A person's a person, no matter how small." Do either of you have a motto that you kind of refer to now and then?

Jim Carrey: “Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid. That's been my motto all along. That's really what I do.”

Steve Carell: “Be sure to use a washcloth because that's a good way to exfoliate.”

Jim Carrey: “Brush your dentist twice a day, visit your toothbrush twice a year.”

The latest trailer of Get Smart just came out and it has a lot of action in it.

Steve Carell: “It's all in the trailer. That's it. There's no more.”

Was it fun being an action star?

Steve Carell: “It's incredibly fun. Being an action star is all I ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.”

Jim Carrey: “He's packing right now. There's a lump back here, I see it.”

Steve Carell: “That's right. I have one stuck in my boot, as well. Yeah. It was just fun and silly, and again, ridiculous, and I'm hanging from wires, off of buildings, and underneath planes. And it was fun. I'd do it again in a second.”

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