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Waiting Quotes


"No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock."


"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."


"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."


"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"


"The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by."


"The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on."


"I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one."


"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."


"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years."


"I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call."


"I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed."


"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."


"We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY."


"Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen."


"It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before."


"Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around."
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