Waitress Quotes - Page 4

• I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

  Keri Russell

  Character, Pages, Great Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Tired, Ideas

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• [Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level.

  Keri Russell

  Song, Levels, Diners

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"

  Keri Russell

  Character, Bad Relationship, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We shot the movie [Waitress] in 20 days so there wasn't a lot of time to learn. There wasn't a lot of pie baking going on, at least not by me. But we always had pies while we were filming - we ate two different pies every day for lunch!

  Keri Russell

  Pie, Two, Lunch

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• With a pie, the crust is a real delicacy. It's very hard to get it just right because it's got to be cold and just the right consistency. There's a whole art to it and I haven't learned how to do it [filming in Waitress].There's not a lot of time for cooking, especially when you're shooting nights or working until 11pm.

  Keri Russell

  Art, Real, Night

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.

  Keri Russell

  Interesting, Different, Firsts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

  Keri Russell

  Uplifting, Hopeful, Ends

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

  Ann Patchett

  Home, Writing, Tired

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• For years while I was working as a waitress, all I wanted to do was get on a TV show. You think, "This will solve all the problems. I'm making more than 400 dollars a week; I don't have to worry about money ever again," but it's just not true.

  Aya Cash

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do think it [the Waitress] speaks in a positive way for women and it was surprising for me to see it for the first time as a movie all put together with music. I really liked it a lot.

  Keri Russell

  Thinking, Together, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's definitely a unique situation that we're in. And, yeah, it is difficult not having our ringleader here with us to talk about the film [the Waitress], not having our main person here. People are also asking in relation to the film: what would Adrienne [ Shelly] say about this or that? But I don't know. I don't know what she would say.

  Keri Russell

  Unique, People, Asking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Effort, Humanity

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.

  Keri Russell

  True Life, Scripts, Serious

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don't think money's a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

  Karen Russell

  Black, Hunters, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Along the way, I've worked as a waitress, I've done phone surveys, and worked as a receptionist, and for the last twenty years I've taught. When I was an actor, the key was to find a job that kept your days free to audition.

  Debra Dean

  Jobs, Keys, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.

  Adam McKay

  Mom, Jobs, School

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Hustle And Bustle, Needs

  "No 'Pressure' for Billy Joel as he begins tour". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 16, 2005.

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• Donald Trump claims - he did interview after the debate where he said, well, gosh, you can't find Americans to do these jobs to be waiters or waitresses or bellhops.What ridiculous nonsense. "The New York Times" reported roughly 300 Americans applied for those jobs. He only hired 17. Instead, he brought in foreign workers, because they're captive workers, because you can pay them less because they can't leave.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, New York, Pay

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  Britta Phillips

  Girl, Husband, Trying

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Girl, Rich, Restaurants

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.

  Keri Russell

  Writing, Expression, Creative

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.

  Val Kilmer

  Girl, Fall, Competition

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

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• People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.

  Chloe Sevigny

  People, Tolerance, Courtesy

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