- Storm
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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
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think I've been able to maintain that. I'm a totally normal person, I don't get followed or have photographers waiting outside my door. So yes I have a very ordinary life.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it's important to create the work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The narrative of 'man the hunter' presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through the hunt, and that women were just sitting by the fire waiting for evolution to drag them out by the hair in the 1960s in order to participate.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the moment I've been waiting for, fighting on the big cards like UFC 200.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call my ring Procter and Gamble, because David paid for it through his first commercial from Head & Shoulders. When I met David, he was waiting tables. He was below broke, in deep debt, but I followed my heart. When you're looking for a mate, don't look at his current status, but his present potential that will become a part of his future.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I started performing, I thought, 'Why is this something that we do after hours, underground?' I was waiting on the world to change and the idea of this art to become mainstream, and I think that's what 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has really accomplished in such an eloquent way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020