Top 77 Daytime Quotes

I’m a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I’m a fan in the room going, ‘People are going to be so mad right now!’

I was working with the computer at university and playing jazz in the daytime, buying west-coast psychedelic and early Kraftwerk records in the afternoon, and playing folk at night. I was quite busy!

In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid.

The magazine, the daytime show, we’ve always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal – even with all the delays – if we could have had in ’44, ah, let’s say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.

My first time on camera was ‘One Life to Live.’ I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It’s theater onscreen.

The landscape of daytime has changed. I’m not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.

My basics for a daytime look are simple: powder, gloss, brows and lashes.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it’s like being a teenager all the time.

Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material… and that can take you out of watching the performance.

When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.

My biggest accomplishment was playing ‘Lark’ on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else’s shoes.

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don’t watch any daytime television at all.

When I wake up, if I can’t figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it’s there immediately. I don’t know if it’s the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

It’s all about story and character with me, and I don’t care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I’ll do my acting on a street corner.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it’s like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.

I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.

I’m actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

Good drama, challenging drama – and comedy for that matter – has a place in the daytime schedule.

I write down three things in the morning that I want to accomplish, but I write it down as if I have already accomplished it. So you write it down three times. And then in the daytime, like near the afternoon, you write it down six times. Then at night, you write it down nine times.

In daytime, you’re shooting an episode a day, which is on average about 90 pages of script a day. That is very hectic. On ‘90210,’ you get to work through it a little more. You’re not just flying through it just to get it done.

Because of the pace of daytime, you don’t necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.

I started watching some ‘Doctor Who’ recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime – I’m pathetic.

I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows – I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren’t done; I’m just very uncomfortable with myself.

It’s nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, ‘Geez, I’m upset that he’s alive’? No, I don’t even think about him. I don’t think about this case.

In daytime, they’re doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

I love daytime television.

For me personally, and I’m sure not everyone is like this. But for me I find it difficult to choreograph in the daytime.

Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So – noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time – and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

I didn’t know that I could do a talk show. I didn’t know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn’t know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.

Pointless’ – I think it’s probably the greatest daytime TV show that has ever existed.

What I learned, a little too late, was that the ‘traditional’ Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

I’ve gotta say, daytime fans are the best fans. Everyone always says that, and it’s so true.

I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.

I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading – I always feel I should be doing something else!

Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it’s partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

In the daytime during the summer, I only wear ‘Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage Concealer’ for coverage. I keep that in my bag at all times. I love ‘RMS Buriti Bronzer’ because it has a little bit of red in it, and my skin is on the reddish side, so it matches really well.

For makeup, I prefer to keep it simple for the daytime.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

I have seen many a tear-strewn individual during my time working on daytime TV’s morning sofas: individuals encouraged to share their views, ill prepared for the backlash that social media will deliver direct to you, unregulated and unrelenting.

I’m kind of in the middle as far as being a risk-taker and playing it safe. I dress more conservatively, but I’m also eclectic. I can do jeans with ripped holes and flats in the daytime, but I love putting on a great pair of stilettos with amazing leather pants.

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

I’ve wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that’s where you can convey a message.

The ‘Day Shift’ songs are things that would unfold during the daytime. ‘Night Shift’ is what would unfold during the nighttime. So, that’s how I put that whole thing together. I did both all on one album budget.

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

Playing live, you can’t survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

I used to say, ‘We’ve always had integration in the South… we just want it now in the daytime.

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it’s daytime.

There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

As any daytime judge show can tell you, spending someone’s money or taking their stuff because they hurt your feelings is not justified.

By the time I’m 40, the hope is that I’ll be solidly in daytime television and producing the various other experts we’ve brought along the way.