Waiting Tables Quotes

I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.

I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

I was a host and a busboy and a barback.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.

I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.

When I was a struggling actress in New York in my 20s I worked in a burger joint called Diane's Uptown. I actually loved waiting tables. I still keep who I was in my mind and never take anything for granted.

I had a period without acting work, and I took a job as a cocktail server. In 'Stick Fly,' my character has to carry a tray, and I knew how to do it because of the job.

I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

When I first got to L.A., I was stretching $20 a week, waiting tables, and I did that for about six months. I didn't mind it at all, I was really happy for that experience, but it made me really get aggressive about what I want. I've been doing this since I was eight, and never considered doing anything else, so I really had to kick it into gear.

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

I lived at home for 2 1/2 months each time. I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver and then I moved on.