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Charlie Day Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1976

Topics

Me Doing Idea Terrifying Stand-Up

I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

Life College Door Loved Candy Kid

You've got to sell fights; you've got to be entertaining.

Michael Bisping

You Got Entertaining Sell Fights

If I do want to wear a little bit of makeup, I really like a pink lip. There's one called Lip Mist in Pink Heather from Burberry that I love.

Suki Waterhouse

Love Makeup Pink Want Mist Little

Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see, from the producer to the director to the writers to the actors. I think 'Pacific Rim' has been an example of something that illustrates what you get if everyone is driving towards a common purpose.

Purpose People Think Driving You

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

Great Loneliness Think Fate Way

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Miguel de Cervantes

Comfort Miserable Only Partners Woes

My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable.

Michaela Watkins

Character Words Me Thought You Page

My thing is to play as well as I can possibly can.

I Can Play Well Thing Possibly

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

Thought Brooklyn Never Out Apartment

There are people out there who would enjoy my books but wouldn't pick them up because they think it's not going to be for them. I find it infuriating.There's a lot more going on in my books than just romance.

People Think Enjoy Find More Out

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

Yourself Stand Up Stand You Up Just

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

Love Great Myself Money Day Job

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