Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though.
I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.
. . . but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity. . . . Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.
As a child I most closely identified with Charlie Browns teacher. Nobody listened.
Eric followed Vlad Tepes’s stubby finger, identifying me as the future Happy Meal. Then he stared at Dracula, looking up from his kneeling position. I couldn’t read his face at all, and I felt a stirring of fear. What would Charlie Brown have done if the Great Pumpkin wanted to eat the little red-haired girl?
Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end. . . Charlie: When do the good things start?
Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. " Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.
I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.
If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter. . . He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.
I love being Charlie Daniels for good, bad, or indifferent.
I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.
Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
He told me he wouldn't hurt. . . Charlie. He lied to me.
If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.
I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.
Woo!" Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!" Jacob and Charlie jumped. The rest of us froze. Charlie recovered, then looked at Emmett over his shoulder. "Florida winning?" "Just scored the first touchdown," Emmett confirmed. He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudville. "'Bout time somebody scored around here.
I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.
Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist in Montana. But later, maybe a year and a half ago, they named it one of the 50 greatest pictures ever made at National Geographic.