Quotes About Patience

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

If your best offensive players go down, all you can do is hang on.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

Offers from Madrid or Barca will come when they come, but my mentality is to continue growing as a player.

There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.

Not much changed post-'Raazi.' I didn't get too many offers.

I was doing a show in Bridgeport, Conn., and getting offers for more money from Boston and other cities in the east. But I figured I would hold out for New York. Then one day, I got a call out of the blue from Hollywood from KNX.

I've had offers for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, but I do not want to take just any musical. I want the musical that's right for me when I'm right for it.

Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.

You can't open anything after your 50. You have to wait 'til people stop by the house. 'Oh my God, I'm glad you're here.'

It's nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, 'Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO's money.'

I won't sign a film thinking, 'Oh my God! I don't have a film so I've got to sign one real quickly.'

Every time my sister and I went on the set with my mother, everyone would be like, 'Oh my god, she's going to become a star.' So in my head, I always thought I was going to be an actress, but not so soon.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.