Quotes About Patience

Some basic things I have picked up from Dad is how to interpret my character correctly, use the camera to my advantage and how not to hurry up with work.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

As much as I hate that it's a business decision - like, I'm just picking a school - it really is a business decision. I really don't see anything wrong with waiting it out.

At certain times, you start to - maybe not lose the faith - but just wonder how long it will take until someone picks me up. I was thinking, 'Is it just me? Do I think I'm better than any manager does?'

I kept begging and begging for a car when I turned 16. My dad got me a 1971 Chevy pickup with no air conditioning and no radio!

You can't really be picky and choosy for your first lead role.

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years, and I want to work a lot more. So if I can find something that just happens right away as a director, I'll do it if I really love it, but otherwise, I want to keep working as an actor and getting better.

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

I think a few pictures at a time.

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.

When you come to the set, and are aware of the limitations of the script or the director, don't expect the pigs to fly.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.

It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.