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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.

At the end of the day, all I can be is me. I'm not John Cena. In my 30 years, I've never been John Cena. I don't even think about becoming him. I just want to be - I want...

Quotes by Roman Reigns

When we were kids, we couldn't even afford to watch Thierry Henry on Match of the Day.

Quotes by Romelu Lukaku

I'm a goal scorer, so I'm here to score goals, but at the end of the day, I want to help my team-mates reach something, so we are working hard.

Quotes by Romelu Lukaku

I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.

Quotes by Romelu Lukaku

At the end of the day, I just want to work hard for the team, and if I improve, I'm really satisfied.

Quotes by Romelu Lukaku

I always said to my friends that I would play for Chelsea one day.

Quotes by Romelu Lukaku

When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I'd do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core...

Quotes by Romelu Lukaku

I used to run to school with my brother Jordan. It was two or three miles there and back. We'd do it every day. My parents didn't have the money to buy us bikes. It was nice; we enjoyed it.

Quotes by Romelu Lukaku

I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps.

Quotes by Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Quotes by Romeo Miller

You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day.

Quotes by Romeo Miller

The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

Quotes by Rollo May

Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event a myth....

Quotes by Rollo May

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!

Quotes by Romain Grosjean

On 'Darjeeling,' I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On 'Moonrise Kingdom,' I showed up for one day.

Quotes by Roman Coppola

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Quotes by Roland Barthes

Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.

Quotes by Roland Martin

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Quotes by Roger von Oech

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Quotes by Roger Zelazny

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

Quotes by Roger Zelazny

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.