Waiter Quotes - Page 8

• I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

  Nick Frost

  School, Thinking, Acting

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. September 2005.

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• I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

  Peter Mayle

  School, Thinking, Years

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• In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

  Quentin Crisp

  Manhattan, Actors, Surface

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• It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Marriage, Mean, Knowing

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• New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

  Alan Brien

  New York, Food, Cities

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• One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.

  Tobin Bell

  Svengali, People, Roles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.

  Ricky Gervais

  Sarcastic, Depressing, Jobs

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• But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.

  Robert Benchley

  Moving, Salary, Tasks

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

  Bette Midler

  Depression, Speak, Eating

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."

  Robert Orben

  Couple, Hero, Night

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• ... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.10, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Song, Your Side, Long

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Coffee, Tired

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• I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.

  Stephen Shore

  Bed, Meals, Toilets

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• [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

  Harrison Ford

  Patience, Time, People

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• Robert Whitmore
  died of apoplexy
  when a stranger from Georgia
  mistook him
  for a former Macon waiter.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Georgia, Stranger, Former

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.

  Kate Simon

  New York, Trying, Taste

  Kate Simon (1959). “New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill”

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• The way we treat people we think can't help or hurt us - like housekeepers, waiters, and secretaries - tells more about our character than how we treat people we think are important. How we behave when we think no one is looking or when we don't think we will get caught more accurately portrays our character than what we say or do in service of our reputations.

  Michael Josephson

  Hurt, Character, Thinking

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