Daily Inspiration Quote by Devon Werkheiser

The joke lands because it’s an admission of laziness that refuses to dress itself up as virtue. Devon Werkheiser frames avoidance as a “favorite way” - not a one-off slip, but a practiced little ritual - then punctures it with the blunt anticlimax: “But it never works.” The punchline isn’t just that chores still happen; it’s that the performance of sleep is so transparently bad, so universally legible, that even the speaker knows he’s not fooling anyone.

As an actor, Werkheiser is quietly winking at his own toolset. Acting like you’re asleep is literally acting: an attempt to control the scene, manipulate the stakes, rewrite the script so responsibility exits stage left. The subtext is a miniature portrait of how we try to negotiate power at home. Chores are small, domestic authority. Pretending to be asleep is the cheap hack: plausible deniability, the hope that silence reads as incapacity. The “never works” reveals the real hierarchy: whoever assigned the chore has seen this episode before.

Context-wise, it fits the pop-culture persona of the former kid/teen TV star now speaking in adult hindsight. It’s self-deprecation without self-improvement, a refusal to turn an everyday flaw into a motivational lesson. That’s why it’s relatable: not because everyone hates chores, but because everyone recognizes the doomed optimism of thinking one flimsy bit will outsmart people who live with you.