Quotes About Timing

For acting, once I am doing a movie, I am fully into that. But I am not one to chase films. When it comes, it comes.

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.

Sometimes you have to take the opportunity when it comes because it might not come again. That's what my thoughts were when I went to Chelsea.

Your chemistry with your co-actors is more important in a comedy. You can't leave it to your performance alone. So many things have to fall into place to make people laugh.

I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.

I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

I think everything happens at exactly the time it's supposed to.

You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

Having nasal surgery while you're an active boxer is like breast surgery, a lift right before you have kids. What's the point?

What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.

It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.

We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.

I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk and I knew that sooner or later that was where he was going to light. But when he did, I didn't even see him at first. The buzzing stopped and there he was. And then the phone rang.

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.

Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait.

There are times when certain cards sit unclaimed in the common pile, when certain properties become available that will never be available again. A good businessman feels these moments like a fall in the barometric pressure. A great businessman is dumb enough to act on them even when he cannot afford to.

My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Today, I accept divine timing. I allow the pacing of the Universe to be my own. I align myself with the tempo of my life precisely as it is unfolding.

There is no emergency. My divine timing is perfect and serves you well. Trust my sense of right action. Your successful unfolding is my great joy.

Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine   timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good.