Waiting Around quotes
37 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around."
"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
"The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around."
"I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over."
"I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal."
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"Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is."
"It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them."
"I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that."
"We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see."
