Friday Quotes

In the past I’d always felt like ‘the girl’ in the show or the movie. On ‘Friday Night Lights‘ there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there’s a sense of ease.

When I broadcast my first NFL game during the 1989 season, I had absolutely no idea what to study or how to study. NBC provided me with a handful of newspaper articles, we watched some film at the team facility on Friday before the game, and we interviewed some players and coaches.

If you decide to go clubbing on a Friday night, and you’re home before two A.M., you’re not a man‘s man.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

I don’t like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

‘Last Friday Night’… I just heard a song, and I just liked Katy Perry ever since.

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I’ll always opt for a night at home.

I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

I’d had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.

I’ve never seen ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre‘, I’ve never seen ‘Halloween‘, I’ve never seen any of the ‘Friday the 13ths.’

Make no mistake about it: when you’re on the road Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday – on the road 300 days a year – you have to be a certain type of person.

If you see me on Friday, you’ll see different material on Saturday night.

I used to love those movies, back in the day, like ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ ‘Friday the 13th,’ ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘The Shining.’ I really liked those kind of movies, and I wanted to be a part of one of those kinds of movies.

My weekends start at about 4 P.M. on Friday afternoon, when I let go of work and leave my colleagues to crawl through the rest of the day in our New York offices.

On ‘Friday,’ I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for ‘The Hangover‘ to be a fun set. They’re trying to get money.

You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one’s own team.

In his 40s, my dad refound his youth a bit, and started going to the West Indian club in Northampton, where I’m from, where the West Indian diaspora would go to socialise on a Friday night, and have a drink and a dance to soca and the like.

After school I went to work at a builders‘ merchant in Stoke. After we finished on a Friday, it was down to the Duke of York for a drink with my mates and a game of darts. Unfortunately for them I had a natural talent and nobody could beat me.

I’m under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it’s only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

If I were to ask you who the first million-pound show winner was on British TV, you’d probably go for Judith Keppel. She was, indeed, the first ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire‘ contestant to win £1 million, but the first one on TV was actually Clare Barwick, who won £1 million on Chris Evans’ show ‘TFI Friday.’

I’ve taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

People tell me if I don’t eat vegetables, I’m going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I’d have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn’t eat until Friday.

Acceptance at home is fundamental, yes, but frankly, it’s just not enough. Trans youth, like most young people, spend the majority of their time at school. If you spent Monday to Friday from 8 to 3 being told that you weren’t okay, that you were wrong, how are you meant to think otherwise?

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a ‘New York Times‘ crossword puzzle and a new episode of ‘Homicide;’ Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

People may think I’m crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it’s cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

We got spoiled with ‘Friday Night Lights.’ Not every show is like that, and on other shows, if you try to bring that same truth or that same approach, the system of television doesn’t always allow for that level of collaboration, which is unfortunate because the work would be richer.

I, myself, don’t like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

‘Until Friday Night’ is the first book in my new young adult series, ‘The Field Party.’

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

‘Friday’ is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch ‘Miss Brooks‘ on Friday night.

I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around – it doesn’t matter whether I am dancing on a Friday night or on my bike getting from A to B.

When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you’re earning twenty-five pounds at Arsenal, and you have to stay in every Thursday, Friday, you know it is hard.

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don’t know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

I’d been a fan of old film comedies like Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks movies – the fast-paced dialogue in movies like ‘His Girl Friday’ and ‘Bringing Up Baby’ and ‘Twentieth Century‘ and ‘Sullivan’s Travels.’