Waiting quotes

“I'm gonna wait until this is in color.”

Shirley Knight - Edie Danziger

“I will not leave Cold Mountain. My last thread of courage is to wait... for you.”

Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“Where are the coffee and doughnuts? You can't have a stakeout without coffee and doughnuts.”
Sarah Roemer - Ashley

“- Salchak: I know you've been waiting for years for me to either drop dead or retire.
- Frank Dixon: No, I haven't been waiting for you to retire.”
Eddie Jones - Salchak

“I've found that if you wait long enough, everything comes to you.”
Bill Murray - Garfield

“Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait rather a long wait.”

Colin Firth - King George VI

“The basic rule is this: the more you look at the clock, the slower the time goes.
It will uncover the hiding place of your mind, and torture it with every second.”
Sean Biggerstaff - Ben Willis

- White Demon: I'm still waiting.
- Edward "Eddie" Tor Swenson: I don't understand. Waiting for what?
- White Demon: For you to prove yourself. You've got such potential. It would be a real waste if you didn't put it to use.
Kelly Tainton - White Demon
Johan Rudebeck - Edward "Eddie" Tor Swenson

“Back then I couldn't afford secrets. I just had chores. As a child growing up, we had been rich. And then, well, we weren't. And like most people during the Depression, I now lived each day as it came no longer expecting anything. Waiting for nothing.”

Laura Linney - Daisy

“- Sherlock Holmes: What of the coffin, Lestrade?
- Inspector Lestrade: Well, we are in the process of bringing it up.
[Sherlock Holmes looks at the unmoving constables]
- Sherlock Holmes: Indeed? What stage of the process? Contemplative?”
Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
Eddie Marsan - Inspector Lestrade

“- Daisy: I'm going away in a couple of days, Ed.
- Ed Fitzpatrick: I'll be right here when you come back.”
Jean Harlow - Daisy
Wallace Ford - Ed Fitzpatrick

“- Andrea: You're late.
- Lanie Kerrigan: I'm not late. You're early.”
Melissa Errico - Andrea
Angelina Jolie - Lanie Kerrigan

“- President Beck: We always thought the deadline for public knowledge was the publication of next year's budget since we've spent more money than we can account for. That won't happen for two weeks. I don't suppose I could prevail upon you to wait two weeks in the name of national security?
- Jenny Lerner: Two weeks? There's no such thing as two...” (continue)(continue reading)
Morgan Freeman - President Beck
Téa Leoni - Jenny Lerner

“In the old days, the land felt a great emptiness. It was waiting. Waiting to be filled up. Waiting for someone to love it. Waiting for a leader.”
Keisha Castle-Hughes - Paikea

“- Jim Levenstein: What are you doing here?
- Stifler's Brother: Pussy, man. I'm here for the pussy.
- Jim Levenstein: Take a number.”
Jason Biggs - Jim Levenstein
Eli Marienthal - Stifler's Brother

“Initiative comes to thems that wait.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“Mr. Bernstein, sir there are people who sit and wait their lives away on the promise of the dream that will not come... they are the sheep.”
Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“Death doesn't come when you expect it. Driving a racecar. Or in a gunfight. Death is waiting in the kitchen when you get up at night for a glass of milk.”
Eduardo Noriega - Gabriel Cortez

“- Maj. Joe De Lucca: I always wondered what happened to you.
- Mara: I waited for you.
- Maj. Joe De Lucca: Did you? I waited in chow lines longer than you stayed around.”
John Cassavetes - Maj. Joe De Lucca
Sophia Loren - Mara

“- Zerelda 'Zee' Mimms: There are certain things that have to wait until after the wedding.
- Jesse James: Driver, change of plans. Can you take us to the nearest church, please?”
Ali Larter - Zerelda 'Zee' Mimms
Colin Farrell - Jesse James

“- Lou Peckinpaugh: Suddenly it all seems as though it was yesterday. I stood in that train station, I waited for you for over six hours. Then when your letter came, it started to rain. And I opened it, and the ink ran all over the page. The most important letter of my life... I still don't know what the hell it said!
- Marlene DuChard: It said: ...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Falk - Lou Peckinpaugh
Louise Fletcher - Marlene DuChard

“You knew it would be over when one of us said stop. But you wouldn't say it. I almost waited too long.”

Kim Basinger - Elizabeth

“- Jacques: Last request! I have a last request!
- Citizen Official - The French Revolution: What is your last request?
- Jacques: Novocaine!
[the Official confers with the Executioner]
- Citizen Official - The French Revolution: There is no such thing known to medical science!
- Jacques: I'll wait!”

Mel Brooks - Jacques
Nigel Hawthorne - Citizen Official - The French Revolution

“- Nora McPhee: How do I know you have six months to live?
- Max Dugan: We could sit here and wait.”
Marsha Mason - Nora McPhee
Jason Robards - Max Dugan

“- Gina: Absence makes...
- Nino Quincampoix: ...the heart grow fonder.”
Clotilde Mollet - Gina
Mathieu Kassovitz - Nino Quincampoix