Quotes About Patience

My music's like waiting for a bus. You wait a long time for one, then a whole heap of them come along.

Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

Manage the heat, let the meat cook, and you'll get fantastic results.

There was a film which I did many, many, many years ago which took 14 years to make. Fourteen years. It was a film called 'Oonch Neech Beech' and in one shot, Shashi Kapoor goes out for a jog and when he reaches, he is 40 kilos heavier!

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

I know things can go south a heck of a lot faster than they can go good for you.

I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

What you know not now you will know hereafter.

I can remember watching other Canadians make their big breakouts and saying, 'Hey Mom, when is it going to happen for me?'

Hey, I'd love to have a hit single, but if that doesn't happen, I'm not going to complain.

For me, it's just about playing - getting the game time you need to prove to everyone you can play at that high level.

Yes, sports are very often very boring, which is good and necessary: If games were one long highlight, we wouldn't have any highlights at all.

It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

It's emotional highs and lows in the game of golf.

George Roy Hill, Redford, and I have been looking for a script to do together for 13 years. We haven't been able to find one that we liked enough for the three of us to be in it together.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. - GEORGE LUCAS

Until the time is right, disappear we will.

But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some new power converters and Ã¢â'¬Â¦

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.