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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?

Charlie Day

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Charlie Day
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 9
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New York City
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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.
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Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
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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.
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I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.
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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.
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Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.
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Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.
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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.”
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Both of my parents are actually music teachers.
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I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.
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