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Day Quotes

Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.

These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set....

Quotes by Maika Monroe

To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'

Quotes by Maika Monroe

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

Quotes by Maira Kalman

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Quotes by Major Taylor

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to...

Quotes by Mako

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist,...

Quotes by Mako

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the...

Quotes by Mahavira

I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.

Quotes by Mahesh Babu

At the end of the day, human beings make mistakes.

Quotes by Mahesh Bhatt

My understanding is the day I start looking at myself as a star is the day I will die as an actor.

Quotes by Mahira Khan

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

Quotes by Mahira Khan

I know some artists who write every day, and for a while, I felt really guilty that I didn't.

Quotes by Maggie Rogers

I didn't decide on what college I was going to go to until the day I had to.

Quotes by Maggie Rogers

There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

Quotes by Maggie Rowe

A day on a film set is maddening.

Quotes by Maggie Siff

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a...

Quotes by Magic Johnson

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

Quotes by Magic Johnson

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Quotes by Magic Johnson

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Quotes by Magnus Carlsen

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding...

Quotes by Maeve Binchy

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the theme connecting the quotes on this Day page?
The quotes gathered here touch on daily life and routine from different angles - one speaker reflects on being held accountable "twenty-four hours a day," and another describes the routine of a scene-by-scene read-through happening the day before filming, giving the page a loose, everyday-life throughline. For quotes centered specifically on daily routines, see Day-To-Day Life.
Do these quotes come from a specific field or background?
They span a few different worlds - one is a personal reflection on skin and diet changes since college, another discusses accountability among those serving in Iraq, and two more describe the day-to-day realities of working on film and TV sets.
Is there a quote here about filmmaking routines specifically?
Yes, one entry describes not having "the luxury of rehearsal time on most films," explaining that a scene-by-scene read-through often happens just before shooting rather than well in advance.
What about quotes touching on imagination or escaping routine?
This page focuses more on grounded daily-life reflections, so if you're looking for quotes about mentally drifting away from the day-to-day, Daydream quotes might be a better fit.
How is this different from the Daybreak or Daylight pages?
This page's quotes are reflections tied to daily routine and experience in general, rather than the specific moment of morning or sunrise - for that, Daybreak and Daylight are the more focused pages.

Other related pages include our Daybreak quotes for morning-themed lines and Daydream quotes for something more imaginative.