62 Quotes by Charlie Day

I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff – old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash – absolutely.

Everyone knows what it’s like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

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.

I don’t know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, “I don’t know anything.”

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