- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waiting Quotes
For everything that hasn't happened yet.
Several of these quotes come from performers describing the limbo of waiting for the right role or gig, a restlessness that carries into hope as much as frustration.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never let myself forget that our rivals are waiting for us to slip up and feed their hope of catching us.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole saas-bahu drama is very cliched. I feel there's already too much of that on TV. So I was waiting for something like 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi.' The show offered a fresh and interesting plot.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020