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The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

Tim Burton
Fun, Waiting Around, People
Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.

Robert Redford
Struggle, Waiting Around, Nuts
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

Liz Tuccillo
Jobs, Waiting Around, Knowing
Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.

Jay Mohr
Waiting Around, Feelings, Week
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Officer, this guy is not waiting around for me... so you better shoot me or help me but decide now!

Jack Bauer
Waiting Around, Guy, Helping

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
Waiting Around, Actors, Wonder

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
Writing, Waiting Around, Play
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.

Courtney Summers
Waiting Around, Done, Rooms
Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.46, Macmillan

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.

Clive James
Thinking, Media, Waiting Around
"Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

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
Waiting Around, Bridges, Car

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.

Aml Ameen
Waiting Around, People, Important
Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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.

Al Pacino
Believe, Waiting Around, People
Source: www.rogerebert.com

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