Quotes About Delivery

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

But I... never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.

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

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.

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

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

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

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

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.

People don't just appear on the beach unless they're demigods or gods or really, really lost pizza delivery guys. (It's happened—but that's another story.)

I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

You know, when you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child, and you've been there for that nine month period, you realize that there's no doubt, there's no question that women are the stronger of the sexes. There's no doubt. Any man who had to carry a child for nine months would cave in about month or two. And then delivery, you know labor? Yeah, it's over with. So yeah, I would certainly like to explore that. Sure.

The message is peace and love, the art is in it's delivery and persistence.

One of the Albons thought he should deliver his message in person, Sir, but some of the men pointed out that he was mistaken." "Did they throw him down the stairs?" "A little, yes.