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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.

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

Quotes by Ken Bruen

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

Quotes by Ken Burns

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

Quotes by Ken Caminiti

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built...

Quotes by Ken Follett

Just because I made it look easy doesn't mean that it was and you don't work hard and become a Hall of Famer without working day in and day out.

Quotes by Ken Griffey Jr.

I probably eat about 300-350g of carbs a day. About 160g of protein, about 60-80g of fat, which I think is about 2,500-3,000 calories.

Quotes by Kelvin Fletcher

I knew I wanted to marry Liz the day I met her. Deep down I knew she was The One.

Quotes by Kelvin Fletcher

Keep hydrated: I drink at least 4 litres of water a day.

Quotes by Kelvin Fletcher

My main influence was my father. He was a great high school coach. I thought one day, if I got lucky, I could be a head high school coach.

Quotes by Kelvin Sampson

I try to work hard each and every day to become a better player.

Quotes by Kemba Walker

I go hard each and every day.

Quotes by Kemba Walker

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Quotes by Ken Baumann

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

Quotes by Kelly Reilly

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

Quotes by Kelly Ripa

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

Quotes by Kelly Ripa

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

Quotes by Kelly Ripa

If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's...

Quotes by Kelly Ripa

Besides almonds or granola, I don't eat a lot during the day - juicing is what gives me energy.

Quotes by Kelly Wearstler

We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.

Quotes by Kelly Jones

I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because on the day, you want to make sure that you're truly there in the moment.

Quotes by Kelly Marie Tran

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.