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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

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Charlie Day
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Screenwriter
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Television Actor
New York City
New York
Charles Peckham Charlie Day
Charles Peckham Day
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I eat stickers all the time dude!
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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.
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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 have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.
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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.
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You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.
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I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.
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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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Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
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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 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?
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I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, I don't know anything.
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I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.
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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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I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.
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Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
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Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.
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I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.
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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.
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Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.
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