To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.