These hiatus quotes will inspire you. Hiatus, a period of time when something (such as an activity or program) is stopped or a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging hiatus quotes, hiatus sayings, and hiatus proverbs.
Best Hiatus Quotes
- “I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.” ~ Mel Gibson
- “This hiatus coming up I’m looking at a comedy because I need the balance.” ~ Khandi Alexander
- “When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn’t really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing – the first hit record that came out was “Everybody Loves a Winner.” ~ William Bell
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“Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.” ~ Gregory Harrison
- “On other shows, guys can’t wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.” ~ Martin Milner
- “Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren’t together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.” ~ Victoria Pratt
- “I feel that I can’t do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really – I’ve been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did – 20-year hiatus we had – and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won’t do.” ~ Barbara Billingsley
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“It’s been over 15 years since I toured… over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.” ~ Thomas Dolby
- “I usually spend the hiatus of ‘Dexter’ in New York in a way to balance things.” ~ Jennifer Carpenter
- “If there’s one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it’s that you can’t go backwards.” ~ Trey Anastasio
- “Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don’t believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.” ~ Anna Quindlen
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“Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first ‘Dr. Horrible’ done in six days, we banged it out.” ~ Nathan Fillion
- “Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.” ~ Lauren Ambrose
- “You don’t need to be burned out to go on hiatus.” ~ Danielle LaPorte
- “Down time is where we become ourselves… a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.” ~ Anna Quindlen
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“War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.” ~ Norman Finkelstein
- “I take a hiatus every now and again, but I’m not good at that.” ~ Miley Cyrus
- “In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don’t have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it.” ~ Michael J. Fox
- “Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.” ~ Milan Kundera
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“I think I’ve found my passion in life. I’m going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That’s what I really want to do.” ~ Matt Barr
- “I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.” ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
- “I think that there’s always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there’s some acrimony brewing under the surface.” ~ Carrie Brownstein
- “What’s wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods–even extended ones–of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?” ~ Alexi Murdoch
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“I like to work as much as I can, but I only really have the hiatus to work on other projects. I’ve kept myself busy recently. I voiced a character in ‘Ice Age 4,’ which was a lot of fun. I also did another small movie called ‘The Scribbler.'” ~ Kunal Nayyar
- “[on the reason for his seven-year hiatus in direction] My son Aditya made Mohabbatein, which took a lot of time and energy. Then we started looking for a script for me to direct. Nothing seemed to excite us both. There’s a complete bankruptcy of screenwriting in our cinema. I wanted a very earthy and Indian subject. I was tired of the promos on television. With semi-clad girls, they all looked the same. Of course Dhoom has them too. But I’d personally not make a film like that.” ~ Yash Chopra
- “Joy’ to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I’ve had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It’s just like all of those experiences that I had during that period – that growing up period.” ~ Fefe Dobson
- “Even if I’d had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I’ve made.” ~ Steven Spielberg
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“The day Blink-182 announced their hiatus, I felt as if a part of me died.” ~ Alex Gaskarth
- “As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven’t exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their kick-ass rendition of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ But they’ve certainly been lying low while our twitchy, tweet-y times have favored snarkier, more air-quote-driven entertainment, even from puppets. And in a way, that showbiz hiatus has worked in favor of The Muppets. For adults, the movie’s gentle, clever, unironic humor feels freshly, trendily retro now, enhanced by laughs provided in cameos from a very up-to-date roster of stars.” ~ Lisa Schwarzbaum
- “Then why don’t you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick) I don’t want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel’s Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I’d take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark)” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon , After hiatus quotes
- “I’m in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn’t put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I’m just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don’t want to talk about Sarah Palin.” ~ Meghan McCain
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“There’s still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor’s career, there’s no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.” ~ Juliet Stevenson
- “I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I’d been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn’t thinking about television” ~ David Lee
- “Long John I think went off the air in about ’79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That’s why I think Art Bell thought there was a spot to be filled. He was doing exactly the same thing.” ~ Paul Laffoley
