155 Movie Quotes about Waiting (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about waiting, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

71 I'll listen to you, I won't rush. I'll wait the right time before I move. I will succeed.

Quote from The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

72 These are the people who wait for people outside of doors. Kind of makes you wonder about that door, doesn't it?

James Caan as Mississippi in El Dorado (1966)

73 You're an idiot. I've been sitting over there for 45 minutes waiting for you to come and talk to me. But I'm tired now, and I have to go home. And I couldn't sit there any more waiting for you.

Minnie Driver as Skylar in Good Will Hunting

74 You don't mind waiting, do you? -What's there to mind? The night's young, the orchids are smelling, the meter is running... Just made another nickel.

Susan Sarandon as Peggy Grant in The Front Page (1974)

75 We's the waiting ones. -Waiting for what? -Waiting for you.

Mel Gibson as Mad Max Rockatansky in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

76 You know, sometimes when you wait for real good news, you wait forever. -I guess so. -I don't want to wait forever.

Ruby Dee as Rae Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story

77 Get a move on, Big Nose. There's people waitin' to be crucified out here.

Eric Idle in Monty Python's Life of Brian

78 Well, what are you going to do? Just stand around here and wait for something to turn up? -Yep. No use running around in circles just to look busy.

Robert Lowery as Larry Adams in Revenge of the Zombies (1943)

79 We must wait. What we've done up to now is nothing to what we will do. We've only just started. Just opened the door. Now is the time to go through that door and find what lies beyond it.

Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein

80 Now, wait. -For what? -For strategy. For stealth.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)