At a recent press conference in Los Angeles touting the release of "Horton Hears a Who!," journalists asked Steve Carell to rat on "the glamorous side of (his) career — the red carpet walk and all that." He replied . . .

CARELL: Frankly, that's such a strange world to me — the red carpet, the glamour and the glitz. My wife and I just laugh at each other the entire night because we don't feel like we're really part of that world. The first big one I went to was the Golden Globes. It blew my mind. It was so unlike anything that I had ever done in my life. It was exciting and there were stars all over the place. I was like, how did I get invited to this thing?

I love to watch the red carpet and see people make fun of themselves and wear things that are crazy or not crazy. It always seems more glamorous from a distance than when you're there. You're in the men's room next to John Travolta. It puts things in perspective — they're just people who have to pee like everybody else.

Oh, incidentally, Ricky Gervais and I were together in the men's room at the SAG Awards. This is another men's room story. We greeted each other. I was at the urinal and he was at the next. He peered over the little partition and actually said, as loudly as he could, "I knew it!" — in this packed men's room. I was like, "Thanks, great."

QUESTION: Your acceptance speech when you won the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical series in 2006 (for "The Office") remains one of the funniest ever. You said your wife (comedian Nancy Walls) wrote it for you. Who really wears the pants in the family?

CARELL: She will occasionally wear a skirt if we're going out but for the most part, we both wear pants. I wear bigger pants but the whole idea for that speech was hers. I didn't think in a million years that I would win. But I thought I should have something literally in my back pocket so I don't make a complete fool of myself just in case I get called. She said, "Well, you should just thank me over and over." So we came up with this idea that she wrote the speech and that she had written my thanks to her into the speech. So I sat down and typed it out in about 20 minutes and read it to her. She was like, "Yeah, if you win, just read that" and that was that.

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Steve Carell Golden Globes Speech