Quotes About Godot

#1. When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.

Kit Harington

#2. Waiting for Godot ... has achieved a theoretical impossibility - a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

Vivian Mercier

#3. Waiting for Godot

Cary Elwes

#4. We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#5. Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Ian McKellen

#6. Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on paper in my direction, as I've done. I am so unhappy it's amusing.

Maryse Holder

#7. My Halloween costume is Godot. I'm not showing up at the party, just texting the host every 10 minutes that I'm on my way.

Wynne McLaughlin

#8. If by Godot I meant God, I would have said God, and not Godot.

Samuel Beckett

#9. As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

Phil Foglio

#10. I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

Barry Humphries

#11. Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.

Michael Schultz

#12. I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.

Patrick Stewart

#13. As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

Nathan Lane

#14. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.

John Green

#15. Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

Samuel Beckett

#16. I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

Michel Foucault

#17. Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

Gianfranco Fini

#18. VLADIMIR: Has he a beard, Mr. Godot?
BOY: Yes Sir.
VLADIMIR: Fair or... or black?
BOY: I think it's white, Sir.
VLADIMIR: Christ have mercy on us!

Samuel Beckett

#19. Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

Rumi

#20. When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Sinead O'Connor

#21. Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Hu Shih

#22. So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

George W. Bush

#23. You are that what you cannot lose.

Gerrit Komrij

#24. Getting cheated on is far worse than taking a beating. Just listen to all them records about it if you don't believe me.

Daren Dean

#25. What are we doing here, that is the question.

Samuel Beckett

#26. Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#28. Reporting was imitation life, imitation expertise, imitation worldliness, imitation intimacy; mastering a subject only to forget it, befriending people only to drop them.

Jonathan Franzen

#29. We all are born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett

#30. VLADIMIR: Dance, hog!

Samuel Beckett

#31. Necessity never made a good bargain.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

Johnny Rich

#33. V: After having sucked all the good out of him you duck him away like a... like a banana skin.

Samuel Beckett

#34. But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind! ... Ghosts.

Robert M. Pirsig

#35. Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.

Samuel Beckett

#36. E: Well, shall we go?
V: Yes, let's go.
(They do not move)

Samuel Beckett

#37. Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That's where we'll go, I used to say, that's where we'll go for our honeymoon. We'll swim. We'll be happy.

Samuel Beckett

#38. To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

Samuel Beckett

#39. To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

Samuel Beckett

#40. All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Samuel Beckett