Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you. – Dylan McDermott
It’s hard to find a play that’s right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself. – Dan Castellaneta
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. – Cathy Guisewite
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. – Elizabeth Warren
I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb. – Deborah Copaken Kogan
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move – and he, in turn, waits for you. – Marian Anderson
It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step. – Elliott Abrams
I love TV, don’t get me wrong. But with film, you’re just banging out this one product and you’re not waiting on another script. You have your script. It’s great, in that way. – David Anders
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – E. M. Forster
I would come home after school and begin to create videos, because there was people waiting to see new content from me. – Megan Nicole
When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn’t. – Eddie Vedder
What’s monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning – the waiting around. – Chris Messina
I can’t start my day without hearing ‘Waiting On the World to Change’ by John Mayer. It’s my alarm clock and my favorite song. – Matthew Underwood
Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we’re open for business. – Ginnifer Goodwin
I love TV, don’t get me wrong. But with film, you’re just banging out this one product, and you’re not waiting on another script. You have your script. It’s great in that way. It’s as close to theater as you can get. – David Anders
When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. – George Harrison
I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I’ve been a teenager – I mean, musically, creatively. – Daryl Hall
The essence of a government health care system – for people who have never lived under it and don’t know – is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. – Mark Steyn
One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time – but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what’s coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you’re locked into it. – Nick Kroll
Although it’s not something I’m particularly proud of, I’m willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the ‘New Yorker’ and ‘New York Times’ on my Kindle, I’ve picked up the occasional tabloid magazine. – Derek Blasberg
The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don’t quite know what movie I am supposed to be making. – Peter Jackson
Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don’t have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office. – Chelsea Cain
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. – George Washington Carver
The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows. – Flo Rida
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I’m seeing all the food every day, and there’s lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow. – Donnie Yen
I actually signed on to do ‘On the Road’ before we started on ‘Tron,’ but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast. – Garrett Hedlund
