--- title: "11 Waiting Big Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Waiting Big quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Waiting Big sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/miles-teller-7696_big_i-m-still-waiting-for-my-first-big-holly_1137139.png" --- > [I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miles-teller/i-m-still-waiting-for-my-first-big-hollywood-paycheck-maybe-i-ll-play/) [Miles Teller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miles-teller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/miles-teller-7696_big_i-m-still-waiting-for-my-first-big-holly_1137139.png) > [Most of the Church is waiting for the next big command from God, but God is waiting for the dreams of His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-johnson/most-of-the-church-is-waiting-for-the-next-big-command-from-god-but/) [Bill Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/bill-johnson-1147_dreams_most-of-the-church-is-waiting-for-the-ne_1005485.png) > [“accent—I’m still waiting for my big Oscar-baiting period role—but”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-faris/accent-i-m-still-waiting-for-my-big-oscar-baiting-period-role-but/) [Anna Faris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-faris/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66d/anna-faris-7431_accent_accent-i-m-still-waiting-for-my-big-osca_424937.jpg) > [“I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lex-martin/i-think-i-ve-been-waiting-for-the-big-gesture-the-one-where-the-guy/) [Lex Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lex-martin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93b/lex-martin-45541_ball-game_i-think-i-ve-been-waiting-for-the-big-ge_821497.jpg) > [The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvine-welsh/the-inspiration-can-come-in-such-small-ways-that-if-you-sit-there/) [Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvine-welsh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/irvine-welsh-843_bigs_the-inspiration-can-come-in-such-small-w_2621951.png) > [Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trip-lee/waiting-is-a-big-part-of-life-we-don-t-like-to-admit-that-especially/) [Trip Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trip-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/trip-lee-7975_art-of-life_waiting-is-a-big-part-of-life-we-don-t-l_2411637.jpg) > [I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luke-bryan/i-will-always-really-work-hard-to-write-as-much-as-i-can-but-i-also/) [Luke Bryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luke-bryan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7b/luke-bryan-2706_bigs_i-will-always-really-work-hard-to-write_982689.jpg) > [Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-brown-taylor/our-waiting-is-not-nothing-it-is-something-a-very-big-something/) [Barbara Brown Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-brown-taylor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/barbara-brown-taylor-3225_bigs_our-waiting-is-not-nothing-it-is-somethi_2583353.png) > [It's nice to always have a job and not be floating out in the ether waiting for whatever the next big thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-elizabeth-ellis/it-s-nice-to-always-have-a-job-and-not-be-floating-out-in-the-ether/) [Mary Elizabeth Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-elizabeth-ellis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/mary-elizabeth-ellis-30179_big-things_it-s-nice-to-always-have-a-job-and-not-b_1558147.jpg) > [You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-furtick/you-may-be-living-under-the-illusion-that-when-god-ignites-great/) [Steven Furtick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-furtick/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a9/steven-furtick-3394_attention_you-may-be-living-under-the-illusion-tha_2869499.png) > [“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shauna-niequist/i-have-always-essentially-been-waiting-waiting-to-become-something-2/) [Shauna Niequist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shauna-niequist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/shauna-niequist-3042_american-idol_i-have-always-essentially-been-waiting-w_2996243.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/waiting-big/#itemlist", "name": "Waiting Big Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Miles Teller" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miles-teller/i-m-still-waiting-for-my-first-big-hollywood-paycheck-maybe-i-ll-play/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/miles-teller-7696_big_i-m-still-waiting-for-my-first-big-holly_1137139.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/miles-teller-7696_big_i-m-still-waiting-for-my-first-big-holly_1137139.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/miles-teller-7696_big_i-m-still-waiting-for-my-first-big-holly_1137139.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.” — Miles Teller", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Most of the Church is waiting for the next big command from God, but God is waiting for the dreams of His Church", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-johnson/most-of-the-church-is-waiting-for-the-next-big-command-from-god-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/bill-johnson-1147_dreams_most-of-the-church-is-waiting-for-the-ne_1005485.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/bill-johnson-1147_dreams_most-of-the-church-is-waiting-for-the-ne_1005485.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/bill-johnson-1147_dreams_most-of-the-church-is-waiting-for-the-ne_1005485.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Most of the Church is waiting for the next big command from God, but God is waiting for the dreams of His…” — Bill Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“accent—I’m still waiting for my big Oscar-baiting period role—but”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anna Faris" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-faris/accent-i-m-still-waiting-for-my-big-oscar-baiting-period-role-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66d/anna-faris-7431_accent_accent-i-m-still-waiting-for-my-big-osca_424937.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66d/anna-faris-7431_accent_accent-i-m-still-waiting-for-my-big-osca_424937.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66d/anna-faris-7431_accent_accent-i-m-still-waiting-for-my-big-osca_424937.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“accent—I’m still waiting for my big Oscar-baiting period role—but” — Anna Faris", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love or makes some scene at a football game that ends with the crowd doing the slow clap. 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Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. In college, the post-college “adult” person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. Then the married person, then the person I’d become when we have kids. For twenty years, literally, I have waited to become the thin version of myself, because that’s when life will really begin. And through all that waiting, here I am. My life is passing, day by day, and I am waiting for it to start. I am waiting for that time, that person, that event when my life will finally begin. I love movies about “The Big Moment” – the game or the performance or the wedding day or the record deal, the stories that split time with that key event, and everything is reframed, before it and after it, because it has changed everything. I have always wanted this movie-worthy event, something that will change everything and grab me out of this waiting game into the whirlwind in front of me. I cry and cry at these movies, because I am still waiting for my own big moment. I had visions of life as an adventure, a thing to be celebrated and experienced, but all I was doing was going to work and coming home, and that wasn’t what it looked like in the movies. John Lennon once said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” For me, life is what was happening while I was busy waiting for my big moment. I was ready for it and believed that the rest of my life would fade into the background, and that my big moment would carry me through life like a lifeboat. 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