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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'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'

Quotes by Jason Pierre-Paul

No one gave me a cake or a going-away party on my last day of 'Beverly Hills 90210.'

Quotes by Jason Priestley

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it...

Quotes by Jason Reitman

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define...

Quotes by Jason Reitman

I write every single day.

Quotes by Jason Reynolds

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

Quotes by Jason Reynolds

I finally realize that I have earned my happiness and what little success I have. And I'm not guilty about it any more. It just happened one day. It just came out.

Quotes by Jason Robards

We grow each day or don't grow. Go the other way. We're a different person all the time. The human being is something happening differently every day. That's the challenge of doing a play: using your instrument to learn and...

Quotes by Jason Robards

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

Quotes by Jason Sudeikis

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

Quotes by Jason London

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All...

Quotes by Jason Mantzoukas

I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.

Quotes by Jason Molina

I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

Quotes by Jason Giambi

You have to go out and find a way to compete every day. I know what I can do and what I can offer the team.

Quotes by Jason Hammel

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.

Quotes by Jason Isbell

Fletcher Jones, is that not a quarterback's name? My kid is going to be a quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger Cats one day.

Quotes by Jason Jones

I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

Quotes by Jason Kander

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Quotes by Jason Kidd

I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's...

Quotes by Jason Kidd

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand...

Quotes by Jason Calacanis

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.