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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.

With fashion, you go deep into a shoot for one day, but a movie lasts so much longer. It's literally like going to summer camp.

Quotes by Suki Waterhouse

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

Quotes by Sue Townsend

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as...

Quotes by Sue Wicks

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education...

Quotes by Sufe Bradshaw

I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught dance and acting lessons to kids. It was awesome - an outreach program, Voices Unheard....

Quotes by Sufe Bradshaw

I am not competing with anyone. I am competing with myself. When I wake up every day I am only worried about how I can better myself.

Quotes by Sudeep

I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.

Quotes by Sue Barker

For me, I still wish every day that I could play tennis again. It's such an incredible, wonderful job to have.

Quotes by Sue Barker

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

Quotes by Sue Grafton

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got...

Quotes by Stuart Rose

People don't realize that being eco-friendly doesn't require radical changes. It's not an all-or-nothing thing. Really, it's about very simple, little changes you can make. You can still be into fashion, care about what your skin looks like, or think...

Quotes by Su-chin Pak

Growing up, the only Asian face I saw on air was Connie Chung or extras on M*A*S*H. That was it. You could either be Chinese delivery guy No. 4 or maybe one day read the news.

Quotes by Su-chin Pak

You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. That's where my competitive nature came out. Give me the badges! I would sit in the library all day, not 'cos...

Quotes by Stormzy

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

Quotes by Stuart Bowen

I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.

Quotes by Stone Cold Steve Austin

I used to love Andre The Giant. I could sit around all day and listen to Andre stories. He was such a wonderful, unique guy who everyone loved being around. The thing about Andre, he just had this magical mystique...

Quotes by Stone Cold Steve Austin

I just went up to my mom one day and said, 'I wanna be on TV. I wanna be a superstar!' Since I know this is my passion, and I feel like God chose this career for me, I just...

Quotes by Storm Reid

For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.

Quotes by Stewart Rahr

Every day I am on this Earth, I will do all I can for so many important causes.

Quotes by Stewart Rahr

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

Quotes by Stewart Udall

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.