Quotes About Timing

Being quick off the ground helps you block shots.

I was born born April 22. I got married May 22. System of a Down started started blowing up when I was 22.

Football is something great, but it is like making love: if you do it every minute you get bored, so you have to take your time and do it now and again.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

I think if you make a mistake, it had better be early in the race so you can bounce back from it.

Having the ball in my hand all the time and making plays, it was bound to come to a point where I knew where to get the ball to, who and when to give the ball to somebody. Just making the right decisions when I have it.

On a normal wicket, the ball goes through quickly after bouncing so it doesn't give the batsman as much time. But on a slow wicket you have to bowl with more effort.

I want to go out with my friends and have a laugh. It's funny: you always attract men when you don't want them - you'll go out, and they'll want your number, while you're left thinking, 'Where were you when I wanted a boyfriend?'

I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.

I had lots of breaks.

I always say a film should be given breathing space.

Work breeds a bit of work sometimes. If you're in the right place at the right time, that can lead to other things.

I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a few relationships in between, and then I met my husband Adam when I was 37.

It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.

There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.

I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.

I suddenly had to chase after my pictures... Pictures are like taxis during rush hour - if you're not fast enough, someone else will get there first.

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!