- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life in zero gravity is hard to simulate. We practice on the ground what we call 'the day in the life' simulations, but it's just practicing some of the tests. It can't prepare you for the fact that all of your tools float if you don't pay attention to where they are! If you don't Velcro things down, they're gonna float away.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a college freshman with an on-campus job, I was delivering paperwork to the engineering department one day. There, I encountered two department assistants whose faces lit up with the hope that I was a prospective student. I hadn't come there to enroll, but their reactions piqued my interest.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work out once a day. When I'm in a massive dance show mode, I'll probably be active for about 20 hours each week.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020