Charlie Day Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I am a Patsy Cline fan.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I eat stickers all the time dude!

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

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

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

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

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary 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?

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.

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."

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.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …”

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.

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.

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.”

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