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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
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I walked into the wrong examination room. I'm bad enough at facial recognition... I saw more that day than I cared to. Fortunately, I didn't recognize her from that angle, whoever it was, and I didn't ask. I'm off to a rocky start on the road to fatherhood, but I got a free view.
- Being Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I had a patient who was going through chemotherapy who came to me and said, 'I'm going to go on with what I'm doing, but I need you to tell me what it is that I'm fighting.'
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020