Charlie Day Quotes - Page 2

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• In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

  Charlie Day

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• 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, Know How

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm really into everything. Something I've been asked throughout the years I've done the show is, "What kind of music are you into?" I find that to be a bizarre question, because it implies there are people out there that are only into one specific kind of music. But I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, People, Done

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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• You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

  Charlie Day

  People, Lines, Crosses

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I put myself in the category of "Lucky Guy," and my hopes for the future are that I can continue to push the envelope for myself, and creatively and see what's next.

  Charlie Day

  Guy, Lucky, Envelopes

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Expectations, Guy

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Actors, Guilty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Giving, Tools

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

  Charlie Day

  Food, Long, People

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• I didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.

  Charlie Day

  Careers, Waiting, Tables

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

  Charlie Day

  Hurt, People, Critics

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Don't wait for your break, make your break. Go make it happen for yourself.

  Charlie Day

  Waiting, Break, Make It Happen

  "Charlie Day's Commencement Speech Advice is Perfect for Our Internet Age — VIDEO". Charlie Day's commencement speech to the students at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, www.bustle.com. May 21, 2014.

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• 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

  Food, Knives, Romance

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• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

  Charlie Day

  Musical, Yeah, Persons

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

  Charlie Day

  Ideas

  "Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton: The WTF Q&A". Interview with Marc Maron, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

  Charlie Day

  New Yorkers

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• 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

  "'Horrible Bosses' Charlie Day: 5 Things You Didn't Know" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2011.

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• My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

  Charlie Day

  Parent, Snooki, Knows

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