Charlie Day famous quotes

I don’t think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.
-- Charlie Day

#Thinking #Make You Happy #Should

For the people who don't know, my character could described, in a nutshell, as the bar dumb-dumb.
-- Charlie Day

#Character #People #Dumb

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scare and hard but pays off in the long run... let yourself fail. And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?
-- Charlie Day

#Running #Monday #Struggle

I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely.
-- Charlie Day

#Country #Thinking #People

You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.
-- Charlie Day

#Loss #Voice #Risk

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."
-- Charlie Day

#Song #Play #People

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.
-- Charlie Day

#Fearless

I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.
-- Charlie Day

#Thinking #Skills #Piano

My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.
-- Charlie Day

#Cousin #New Orleans #Swings

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
-- Charlie Day

#Rocks #Littles #Disappointing

I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for a bit, and I just fell in love with the idea of that era of New York, that jazz era, especially jazz in Harlem.
-- Charlie Day

#New York #Ideas #Littles

There are certain episodes that on the page I thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be the funniest episode." And there are other ones that went in, fingers crossed, saying, "Oh well, let's hope something good comes out of it." Oftentimes, those ones wind up being the best ones.
-- Charlie Day

#Boys #Wind #Pages

Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.
-- Charlie Day

#Art #Reading #Writing

Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their life - a year or two - where they're awkward or they have braces.
-- Charlie Day

#Years #Two #People

Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.
-- Charlie Day

#Underdog #Want #Accepted

I was the world's smallest man, covered in freckles with a squeaky, scratchy voice. And I still am, but I've learned to love myself.
-- Charlie Day

#Men #Voice #World

I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.
-- Charlie Day

#Baseball #Art #Team

It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.
-- Charlie Day

#Nice #Son #Thinking

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.
-- Charlie Day

#Ideas #Way #Hearing

I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.
-- Charlie Day

#Writing #Editing #Years

You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I think maybe I could add this here, add that there." But I find that I write just as well for the other characters as I do for myself. I think.
-- Charlie Day

#Writing #Character #Thinking

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.
-- Charlie Day

#People #Want

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.
-- Charlie Day

#Baseball #Teacher #Regret

When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.
-- Charlie Day

#Rap #Insecure #Self

I love Queen. Not all of it. Some of it, I can't get into. But "Don't Stop Me Now" is a pretty hilarious song. It's a good pick-me-up in the car.
-- Charlie Day

#Song #Queens #Car

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.
-- Charlie Day

#Growing Up #Thinking #Guy

I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.
-- Charlie Day

#Real #Rain #People

Because Guillermo's [del Toro] obviously a painter painting a picture and my job is just to provide the color that he probably already has in his mind.
-- Charlie Day

#Jobs #Color #Mind

I'm not going to say that the other people I worked with weren't artist. They were all very great, very talented people, but I think Guillermo [del Toro] will go down in cinematic history as one of our more talented, visually brilliant directors.
-- Charlie Day

#Artist #Thinking #People

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.
-- Charlie Day

#Toilets

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.
-- Charlie Day

#Writing #Thinking #Hair

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.
-- Charlie Day

#People #Collaboration

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
-- Charlie Day

#New York #Boss #Tables

My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.
-- Charlie Day

#Parent #Snooki

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.
-- Charlie Day

#Worry #Goes On #Comedic

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.
-- Charlie Day

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.
-- Charlie Day

#Ideas

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.
-- Charlie Day

#Musical #Yeah #Persons

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.
-- Charlie Day

#Knowing #Pressure #Mcdreamy

Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done.
-- Charlie Day

#Dog #Thinking #Voice

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.
-- Charlie Day

#Guy #Comedian #Saws

I am a Patsy Cline fan.
-- Charlie Day

#Fans

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
-- Charlie Day

#Growing Up #Yankees #Rhode Island

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.
-- Charlie Day

#Cat #Law #Laws Of Nature

I eat stickers all the time dude!
-- Charlie Day

#Sticker

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.
-- Charlie Day

#Giving Up #Giving #Mind

Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel towards yourself, however plausible he may be, or however kindly he may behave; be sure that, the moment he has anything to gain by so doing, he will "throw you over."
-- Charlie Day

#Trust #Men #Gains

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.
-- Charlie Day

#Thinking #Succeed #Chance

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
-- Charlie Day

#Awkward #Actors #Position

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.
-- Charlie Day

#Actors #Pressure #Sometimes

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.
-- Charlie Day

#Teacher #Parent #Music Teacher

It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance.
-- Charlie Day

#Knives #Romance #Exhibitions

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.
-- Charlie Day

#Character #Writing #Thinking