“I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.” WaitingSidesBehindsRedStandingTheaterBoardsRestaurantsAwkwardPlatesIntimidatedEntrancesConductorWaiterHoveringStaircases Book:No Longer Human Source: No Longer Human
“For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.” FilmHouseWaitingTelevisionPaintingTheaterTablesCoffeeRingsReachingServingSurvivingBrassWaiting Tables Author:Kate Walsh
“You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!” KnowsWantKidsWantedWaitingWatchesTelevisionTheaterStoresMidnight Author:John Zorn
“And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.” KnowsPlayOpportunityWaitingStudyCollegeTheaterLotteryRacket Author:Tom Hanks
“The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.” WarPoliticsWaitingTheaterWingsAgingRevengeExileFeverVietnam WarDaydreaming Author:Marge Piercy
“That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."” YoungActorsWaitingRolesTheaterCompromiseAppropriateYoung Actors Author:Denzel Washington
“I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.” HappensWantedFilmWaitingComedyTheaterMovedPlanningLos AngelesFrustratedSan FranciscoWaiting For Something Author:Amy Seimetz
“The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.” IfsWellsRememberDesireNightLeftWaitingChurchMistakeHellStudyJudgingColdLateTheaterSouthGoing OutOne NightPlaywrightCarolinaIf There Is A GodSouth CarolinaCharlestonCharleston South Carolina Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.” KnowsWayKindWaitingActingClassCareersCollegeGrewMajorsGrew UpTrainingBuiltAreasTheaterUniversityPainfulDrivingLos AngelesFulfilledBricksCivicsActing ClassesHonda Author:Mariana Klaveno
“The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.” PeopleYearsFirstsDoneShowsWaitingBlackParticularProjectsTheaterTeenagerChicagoSustainingStrawberriesCreeksBerkeley Author:Robert Hass
“I have to say, doing theater, that's what you're trained to do. Doing film, when I first started doing it, felt like something else entirely. It felt like the difference between, I don't know, waiting tables and painting a great work of art. It's night and day. I didn't feel like it was even acting.” KnowsFeelsFirstsArtFilmNightFeltWaitingDifferencesActingPaintingTheaterTablesWorks Of ArtGreat WorkLike SomethingWaiting Tables Author:Viola Davis
“I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.” KindGirlActorsWaitingDirectorsTheaterThriveAccustomedFeedbackBoost Author:Jill Scott
“I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.” IfsThinkingStoriesRunningWaitingInterestingAudienceTheaterTweetGood StoryGist Author:Steven Spielberg
“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.” KnowsWayDoneCoursesLanguageWaitingAnswersRoomsListeningOfficeWasteStandingTheaterTrainBoxesSpendingSeatsBuyingChairsSundayAfternoonRoutesLecturesConvenientDentistUneasyBox OfficeBalconiesWaiting RoomsQueriesSunday AfternoonsLining Up Book:The Plague Source: The Plague
“I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?” IfsShowsActorsWinningWaitingTheater Author:Alan Alda