Quotes About Timing

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

On crosses, sometimes I make my move one or two seconds before the ball is coming because I'm trying to guess that the ball is coming there. It's intuition. So I run. Sometimes the ball comes...sometimes not. But that intuition is working.

When the time is right, I'll start making investments and try to flip my money.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

Irrespective of what people think I should do, I choose the kind of film I want to do next. I believe it's always about things falling in place at the right time.

Whenever you join a club you look at the schedule to see when you can play the team you left.

I know when it's time to joke and when it's time to be serious. As far as football goes, I'm serious.

There's no such thing as a hit joke.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.

I know what's funny, and I probably know the best way to deliver the joke. Whether it's walking out of a room, facing that way, facing this way. I just have a sense of that.

I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

I really don't like when you see improv scenes go on too long. It really bothers me, even if the jokes are good.

I only have eight jokes, but I can do 'em over a two-hour period of time.

When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'

I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny.

A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it

Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

There is surely no greater wisdom, than well to time the beginnings, and onsets, of things.