- Important
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like watching tennis and basketball, but it's not every day you can watch it on TV. I don't play them, though.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020