Quotes About Patience

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci's for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn't want to do it.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I have more care to stay than will to go.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."

The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.

And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.

We always try to make the very best movie when we're working on and we can only think one at a time. We want to make this a perfect jewel, and then we'll see what happens after that.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.