James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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.
On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.
But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.