Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen

27 quotes

The American film and television actor Charlie Sheen (b. 1965) is remembered as much for penetrating words as for professional achievements. Their reputation for a leading man in film and television lends every quote an extra layer of authority. Discover 35 of Charlie Sheen's most memorable quotes, ranging across Time, Life, Work, Love, and Dad. As Charlie Sheen put it: "You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing."

“As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?”

— Charlie Sheen

Failure

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“I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.”

— Charlie Sheen

Marriage

“You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.”

— Charlie Sheen

Love

“I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.”

— Charlie Sheen

Future

“I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?”

— Charlie Sheen

Time

“When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.”

— Charlie Sheen

Time

“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.”

— Charlie Sheen

Business

“It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.”

— Charlie Sheen

Love

“I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.”

— Charlie Sheen

Time

“I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.”

— Charlie Sheen

Funny

“What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.”

— Charlie Sheen

Life

“Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.”

— Charlie Sheen

Life

“We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.”

— Charlie Sheen

Art

“But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.”

— Charlie Sheen

Funny

“I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.”

— Charlie Sheen

Anger

“I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.”

— Charlie Sheen

Time

“People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.”

— Charlie Sheen

Work

“What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.”

— Charlie Sheen

Dad

“Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.”

— Charlie Sheen

Good

“As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?”

— Charlie Sheen

Failure

“I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.”

— Charlie Sheen

Knowledge