Charlie Day

“I am a Patsy Cline fan.”

“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.”

“Technically, I'm a New Yorker.”

“Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.”

“My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.”

“As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.”

“Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.”

“Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.”

“You cannot let a fear of failure, or a fear of comparison, or a fear of judgement 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. You must go out and take these risk. … Do what’s uncomfortable, and scary, and hard, but pays off in the long run. Be willing to fail. Let yourself fail. Fail in the way and the place where you would want to fail. Fail, pick yourself up and fail again. Because without this struggle, what is your success anyway?”

“Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.”

“Both of my parents are actually music teachers.”

“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.”