- Mind
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like it when I eat myself out of breath. That's a good boost to my day. You know, I'm eating, and I go, 'Oooohhh.' It's better a few moments later when you get to think about it, when you're like, 'Why did I just stop to take a deep breath? Oh yeah, my body also needs air.'
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn't precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.
- February
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met fred rogers in 1998, when 'Esquire' assigned me a story about him for a special issue on American heroes. I last spoke with him on Christmas Day 2002, when I called him to talk about an argument I'd had with my cousin; he died two months later, on February 27, 2003.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love of Green Day is on so many levels. It's their genius for songwriting, the fact that they write about very important subjects, both personal and political, and they're just a timeless band.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or heartache.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Best thing about shooting in Atlanta at night is that it's not as hot as it is during the day.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'The Impossible,' I was taught how to act. Naomi Watts was there every day constantly teaching me. That was where I discovered I wanted to be an actor.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020