John Burns Quotes

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

I don't make any secret of it - I hate not playing.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

My 20s were a lost decade. I didn't do much of anything.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

I got really bored of sitting around waiting for work or for the next movie to come along that only 100 people would see. I got bored of being skint, of twiddling my thumbs, wondering how to take my life to the next stage.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go.

The result was I went nowhere.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad.