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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 brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up...

Quotes by Hamdi Ulukaya

Some day, I'm in a horror movie, and some days I'm in, like, a sweet, independent feature about relationship.

Quotes by Hale Appleman

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

Quotes by Haley Bennett

When people put labels on us, it doesn't always enclose everything that we are. So even though I'm proud to be Somali, I'm proud to be American, at the end of the day, I'm still Halima, and I take things...

Quotes by Halima Aden

If you think people are against you and that you're a target, things will start appearing that way. I just go about my day, and I don't think anyone is out to get me.

Quotes by Halima Aden

My favorite part of modeling is backstage. Every day you work with different people, and as much as people learn about my story, I get to learn about theirs.

Quotes by Halima Aden

I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

Quotes by Hailey Baldwin

Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

Quotes by Hailey Gates

Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.

Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

I understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.

Quotes by Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

Quotes by Haile Gebrselassie

I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.

Quotes by Hailee Steinfeld

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks

All we're in control of is what we do day to day on set and how we prepare to do our job each day.

Quotes by Gwilym Lee

I just listen to a lot of stuff. Sometimes I play music; a lot of times, it will be stuff from back in the day. Sometimes I scan through the radio. Not the average stations that play the everyday thing.

Quotes by Gza

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college...

Quotes by H. G. Bissinger

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

Quotes by Guy Lafleur

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

Quotes by Guy Laliberte

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what...

Quotes by Guy Laliberte

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Quotes by Guy Ritchie

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.