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title: "17 Waiting Godot Quotes by 16 authors"
description: "Browse 17 Waiting Godot quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Waiting Godot sayings and thoughts."
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> [Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/let-s-go-we-can-t-why-not-we-re-waiting-for-godot/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

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> [ Waiting for the implosion \[of the government of Romano Prodi\] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gianfranco-fini/waiting-for-the-implosion-of-the-government-of-romano-prodi-is/)

[Gianfranco Fini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gianfranco-fini/)

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> [We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/we-are-waiting-not-for-a-godot-but-for-another-doubtless-very/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

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> [I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-humphries/i-ve-played-beckett-i-put-on-in-the-1950s-the-first-australian/)

[Barry Humphries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-humphries/)

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> [When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kit-harington/when-i-was-14-i-saw-waiting-for-godot-it-s-one-of-those-plays-that-if/)

[Kit Harington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kit-harington/)

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> [Waiting for Godot' is not an easy play to discover. It is a play that makes us face our own fragile existence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-mathias/waiting-for-godot-is-not-an-easy-play-to-discover-it-is-a-play-that/)

[Sean Mathias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-mathias/)

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> ['Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-rees/waiting-for-godot-when-it-first-came-out-in-1950-was-a-very-different/)

[Roger Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-rees/)

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> [What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/what-are-we-doing-here-that-is-the-question-and-we-are-blessed-in/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

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> [“I have been against all that is ascetic; even that word was not known to me in those days, but I could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/i-have-been-against-all-that-is-ascetic-even-that-word-was-not-known/)

[Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/)

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> [Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lahr/samuel-beckett-s-waiting-for-godot-billed-as-the-laugh-sensation-of/)

[John Lahr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lahr/)

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> [I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-stewart/i-saw-waiting-for-godot-when-i-was-17-in-rep-with-a-then-unknown/)

[Patrick Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-stewart/)

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> [I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-waterston/i-played-lucky-in-waiting-for-godot-at-yale-and-it-was-a-thing-that/)

[Sam Waterston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-waterston/)

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> [Waiting for Godot . . . has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/waiting-for-godot-has-achieved-a-theoretical-impossibility-a-play-in/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-rosset/waiting-for-godot-was-not-allowed-neither-was-henry-miller-the/)

[Barney Rosset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-rosset/)

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> [I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/i-belong-to-that-generation-who-as-students-had-before-their-eyes-and/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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> [When I tried to do 'Waiting for Godot, it was such a controversy. I was tired of political theatre. All I wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kani/when-i-tried-to-do-waiting-for-godot-it-was-such-a-controversy-i-was/)

[John Kani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kani/)

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> [When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mckellen/when-we-d-suggested-doing-it-the-theatre-royal-management-had-said/)

[Ian Mckellen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mckellen/)

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