Charlie Day
Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.Collection: Chance
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.
The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.
Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.
As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.
Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
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.
I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.
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.
My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.
Technically, I'm a New Yorker.
Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
I am a Patsy Cline fan.
Both of my parents are actually music teachers.
Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.
I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.Collection: Thinking
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?Collection: Running
You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.Collection: Fearless
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.Collection: Loss
Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.Collection: Ideas
I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.Collection: Giving Up
I eat stickers all the time dude!Collection: Philadelphia
I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.Collection: Dad
Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.Collection: Cat
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 …”Collection: Smart
People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.Collection: People
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."Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Baseball
I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.Collection: Toilets
Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.Collection: Rocks
I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Nice
For the people who don't know, my character could described, in a nutshell, as the bar dumb-dumb.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: New York
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.Collection: Cousin
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.Collection: Boys
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Jobs
I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.Collection: Growing Up
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Rap
I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."Collection: Song
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Character