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

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Charlie Day
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Charles Peckham Charlie Day
Charles Peckham Day
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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.
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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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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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Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.
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