Quotes About Timing

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Let's stop the startwatch.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

Someone came too sooner.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

Start three bars before something.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.