Latest Charlie Day Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• 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

• I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

  Charlie Day

  Real, Fans, Comedy

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you’re insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, “Hey, I’m a pretty smart guy and I’m pulling it together …”

  Charlie Day

  Smart, Insecure, Men

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

• I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

  Charlie Day

  Dad, Grandmother, Class

  "Monster Madness for Charlie Day". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 08, 2013.

• 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

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

  Charlie Day

  Character, People, Dumb

  Source: movieweb.com

• Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

  Charlie Day

  Ideas, Way, Hearing

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

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