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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's interesting to me because theater is, on any given day, 10,000 times harder than film and television. And that's not to say film or television can't be hard or challenging; it's emotional to do the same thing over and...

Quotes by Cristin Milioti

I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend...

Quotes by Cristina Henriquez

You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know,...

Quotes by Cristina Saralegui

I did pretty well busking. I would play two to eight hours a day, and I could make two or three hundred an hour.

Quotes by Crystal Bowersox

It's a stereotype that black players are just really fast, but at the end of day I want to be skilled, I want to be technical, I want to have vision and that's what I've always tried to promote in...

Quotes by Crystal Dunn

Being a player that plays multiple positions, that's my mindset every single day because I don't have the luxury of just being really good at one thing.

Quotes by Crystal Dunn

My first time in Germany. We started off in Heidelberg, which is this quaint, nice town. The Germans, they shoot just like the Americans, except for, if it's a 10-hour day, they're leaving at 5. You don't go to 5:30,...

Quotes by Craig Robinson

Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks were cool to work with. Jason and I are fast friends to this day.

Quotes by Craig Robinson

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

Quotes by Craig Robinson

I've had some good moments at karaoke. Back in the day, oh my gosh... before, I was more in the public eye. Nowadays, I don't do it as much because if you do, it's going to be on the Internet.

Quotes by Craig Robinson

Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.

Quotes by Crescent Dragonwagon

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.

Quotes by Craig Brown

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

Quotes by Craig Brown

Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.

Quotes by Craig Bruce

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.

Quotes by Craig David

I have four Macs, four iPads, and two phones, and I upgrade them all to the newest build pretty much every day.

Quotes by Craig Federighi

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

Quotes by Craig Johnston

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

Quotes by Craig Kelly

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day....

Quotes by Courteney Cox

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

Quotes by Courtney A. Kemp

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.