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Quotes About Frustration

They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.
~ Clive Cussler
Working in Italy can be quite hard because they don't have schedules - we arrive at TV shows and they're like, 'We're not sure when you're on, could be a minute, could be an hour.' We were on their equivalent of 'The Voice' and the timing was determined by whenever the judge decided the time was right. We waited five hours!
~ Grace Chatto
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
~ Bill Bryson
I was a terrible waiter.
~ Billy Eichner
It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.
~ Drew Pomeranz
There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.
~ Bernard Sumner
They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.
~ Sloane Crosley
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
~ Alan Brien
It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.
~ Susan Strasberg
I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.
~ Dick Van Dyke
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
~ Ben Elton
For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
~ Lesley Nicol
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
~ Ritchie Blackmore
By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.
~ Russel Honore
The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.
~ Lee Hazlewood
It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.
~ Joey Lauren Adams
I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
~ Jason Biggs
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
~ Salma Hayek
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
~ Curtis Sliwa
I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
~ Angie Harmon
The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.
~ Jeff Daniels
I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.
~ Erin Morgenstern
The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
~ Rachel Cusk