"I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that"
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Then he pivots to the Golden Rule, and that pivot matters. He’s trying to narrate his good fortune as moral logic rather than randomness. Not in a preachy way; it’s more like a guy offering a simple receipt for how he’s gotten through: be decent, don’t be a jerk, treat people fairly. Coming from an actor - a profession where perception is currency and where “nice” can read as strategic - the insistence feels both defensive and revealing. It’s a bid to anchor identity in behavior, not fame.
“Maybe someone up there likes me for that” is the softest kind of theology: not doctrine, just a shrug toward cosmic accounting. The subtext is negotiation. If luck is arbitrary, it can vanish; if it’s earned, maybe it’s stable. LeBlanc frames decency as a kind of insurance policy against the roof caving in, a way to make peace with a life that can feel undeserved, public, and precarious. The charm is that he doesn’t claim certainty - he admits the fear and keeps the faith anyway, lightly, like a joke you tell to steady your hands.
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| Topic | Kindness |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
LeBlanc, Matt. (2026, January 17). I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-keep-waiting-for-the-roof-to-cave-in-i-was-68803/
Chicago Style
LeBlanc, Matt. "I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-keep-waiting-for-the-roof-to-cave-in-i-was-68803/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-keep-waiting-for-the-roof-to-cave-in-i-was-68803/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.










