I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I start each book when it’s ready and never before.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I like a drama.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I can’t act!

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

All great achievements require time.

I want to show audiences I can act.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.