Best Charlie Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas are never lax.”

“With someone like Charlie Mingus, there is a counterweight between melody and raucousness. He is still very melodic even though is tearing apart the seam-work of sound.”

“I was waiting on 'Angie Tribeca' to start filming, so I was like, I can go over to 'Black-ish' and write until they're ready to shoot 'Angie Tribeca.' Then the guy who was supposed to play Charlie didn't show up, and Kenya Barris, the creator, asked me if I would play that role. Charlie is based on Kenya Barris.”

“My husband Charlie says I get ready five minutes before I go out the door. I am one of those people who can't do anything unless it's imminent - that's how I roll.”

“I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk.”

“Nothing against resorts or Cancun or Carlos 'n Charlie's, but Guanajuato is different. If you want history, culture, and peace, it's perfect.”

“I flew home to Pittsburgh, and my management called me to ask if I wanted to perform on 'Dancing With the Stars' with Charlie Puth. I'm like, 'What? I grew up watching the show!'”

“Charlie Sykes - someone none of us have ever heard of - is suddenly the star of MSNBC and CNN once he comes out against Trump.”

“I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.”

“All through college, I was searching for characters that would make me unique and set me apart from the typical ventriloquist with the typical dummy that was the little boy, cheeky hard figure like Charlie McCarthy.”

“I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.”

“It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.”

“I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.”

“Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?”

“More useful than beautiful perhaps, my favourite regular programme is 'Question Time'. And Charlie Brooker is just hilarious.”

“At the end of the day, when Charlie Murphy ain't here no more, I'll have a body of work that people can laugh and remember me by.”

“My dreams are like fuzzy Charlie Kaufman movies, so I love going to sleep.”

“When I was growing up, Chef Charlie Trotter inspired me a lot.”

“Charlie Brooker is crazy.”

“Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.”

“I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'”

“In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.”

“Charlie Murphy has been around for a long time. I've worked with a lot of exciting artists, and it was a thrill to be around to watch them display their skills.”

“I would never go on an intimate date with Charlie Sheen. He is really not my type at all.”

“I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.”

“Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.”

“Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.”

“My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.”

“Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.”

“It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'”

“I'm on Twitter, and I have over 10,000 followers. Which is pretty modest compared to Charlie Sheen.”

“I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart. It was incredibly inspiring! And I was given a guitar and I said 'What the hell is this?!'”

“My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.”

“I'm pretty close with a lot of guys, like Nick Watney and Steve Marino, D.J. Trahan and Charlie Warren.”

“Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.”

“I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.”

“Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.' It's the same with the revolution.”

“You can trust Charlie Crist.”

“'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.”

“I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'”

“I did 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Seussical.' From there I took drama classes. And then from about 15, there was not much else for me to do.”

“It's quite unbelievable that Charlie Crist is getting away with this reinvention of himself - this rewriting of history for blatantly political purposes. Other than his gender, the guy has flip-flopped on everything, and I don't put that past him either.”

“Charlie Day is a delight of a human being.”

“I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.”

“I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the source of the Thames to the Houses of Parliament. It's taken us three years so far, and we're only half way.”

“When Charlie Crist went independent, I no longer supported him. Just track the money.”

“We do a cover of Charlie Puth's 'Attention' that I really, really love and I think really grooves.”

“This is going to make me sound really weird and stalkery, but I've bought the aftershaves of all my ex-boyfriends. Sometimes I like to smell them and be like 'aah, that's Charlie... aah that's Dan'.”

“On the Republican Party platform and the major issues of the Republican Party, Charlie Dent is significantly removed from those foundational principles in his voting record.”

“I remember the first time hearing a recording from Minton's Playhouse; it was Charlie Christian and a young Dizzy Gillespie, and he was just the best musician in the room.”

“I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.”

“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”

“Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.”

“Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.”

“The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net.”

“I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'”

“My mom is my role model. Charlie and I have two great sets of parents, but our moms are often the ones that go with us to competitions. My mom was with me in Sochi. I am so lucky to be a part of the Thank You Mom program partnered with Puffs and P&G.”

“I don't want to replace anyone, especially Charlie Sheen.”

“Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.”

“As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.”

“Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off.”

“I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.”

“My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. They've always been best friends.”

“Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?”

“I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.”

“I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.”

“The Republicans need all the entertainment help they can get. When Charlie Daniels was one of your convention headliners, you know you need some serious help.”

“I love guys like Charlie Parker.”

“I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' The kids' theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasn't a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.”

“I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymore; I'm way past those days.”

“You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.”

“I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'”

“Oftentimes you get that question, 'If you could play any character in the world, who would you play?' And I always say, 'I don't know exactly who that would be. I just know that they would be written by Charlie Kaufman.'”

“As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.”

“I don't think that we have a consistent team motto, but before we take to the ice, Charlie and I like to go over things and just reminding ourselves to have a wonderful time and enjoy the moment.”

“Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.”

“Charlie Ward was the best dude ever.”

“I've never met Charlie Sheen.”

“I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how his first child, Molly, had been born while Charlie was deployed to the first Gulf War.”

“Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.”

“I have two mini dachshunds, Lola and Charlie.”

“I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.”

“What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.”

“I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.”

“I knew Charlie Parker, and he gave us such a gift with his music. He put so much into so little space, and it was tragic that he died so young.”

“I have two dogs, Lottie and Charlie.”

“Carlos Beruff supported Charlie Crist after he left the Republican Party. Does that should like someone who is a conservative Republican?”

“When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.”

“I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.”

“From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.”

“But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?”

“Charlie Sheen was such a pro.”

“I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.”

“I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.”

“Well, one person whose company I enjoy is Charlie Whelan. He and I get on really well together.”

“When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the Thelonious Monk book, I play the music and work with kids in a group to create a color wheel and show how the wheel can be mapped on a 12-tone chromatic scale.”

“Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas are always on their 'A-game.'”

“It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.”

“My name is Charlie Murphy. I was born into this name, and I've been rolling how I've been rolling my whole life.”

“The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.”