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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.

That's what it's all about at the end of the day. What can you do? What difference can you make in the world?

Quotes by Rudy Gobert

I'm just working every day and keep watching film and keep building chemistry with my teammates.

Quotes by Rudy Gobert

All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.

Quotes by Rudy Gobert

I'd take the Defensive Player of the Year any day over an All-Star selection. There's only one of these in the whole league every year.

Quotes by Rudy Gobert

I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy.'

Quotes by Ruby Rose

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

Quotes by Ruben Blades

Like, I've worked on movies where you go in every day and you know that what you're shooting isn't very good to start with and then you have to figure it out, and that's way harder.

Quotes by Ruben Fleischer

Playing with some of the best players in the world, you're going to get better every day.

Quotes by Ruben Loftus-Cheek

One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.

Quotes by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn't have any friends, and I wasn't allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was...

Quotes by Ruby Bridges

I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award.

Quotes by Ruby Dee

I knew that we would have a movie about us one day.

Quotes by Rozonda Thomas

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Quotes by Roy Haynes

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

Quotes by Roy Horn

Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.

Quotes by Roy Jones Jr.

I guess everybody is doing a movie thing, so I'm doing the 'Scorpion King 4.' My role in the movie is as one of the king's guards, with a very original name: Roykus. Apparently, back in the day, everybody's name...

Quotes by Roy Nelson

I don't care if I win or lose; I know I'm going to give 110%, and I'm going to hold my head high at the end of the day.

Quotes by Roy Nelson

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

Quotes by Roy Blunt

When you come out of the ocean after surfing all day, loco moco is the best thing you ever tasted.

Quotes by Roy Choi

Go out one day and treat yourself. Go out and have the best sushi you can find, or go to the best barista in your city and have just a cup of cappuccino, and tell yourself that you deserve this....

Quotes by Roy Choi

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.