Top 27 Quotes About Waiting For 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.
Samuel Beckett
#8. 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
#9. Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.
Gianfranco Fini
#11. We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#12. 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
#13. The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.
Gil Gerard
#14. The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Lois Lowry
#16. My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.
LIZ
#17. Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins
#18. 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
#19. The only place you'll be escorting me is to the vet so you can have the foot I'm going to shove up your behind removed!
-Jennifer to Decebel
Quinn Loftis
#21. The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
Lucretius
#22. 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
#23. Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.
Samuel Beckett
#24. E: Well, shall we go?
V: Yes, let's go.
(They do not move)
Samuel Beckett
#25. 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
#26. To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?
Samuel Beckett
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