Quotes About Pause

Comedy is all about the pause.

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That's around when pauses really started.

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

We broke up in '91, but we didn't fade out, we didn't burn ourselves out, we were on pause for 26 years. We stopped at the height, we were No. 1 and we just broke up.

Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music.

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that's something that I take very seriously.

I took my hand off the pause button. I had my life on pause. You get stuck, especially when you're drinking and isolating. I started homing in on what I wanted to do as a person. Just try to grow up.

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

Between stimulus and response, here lies the womb of decision-making.

A seed, after all, is an embryo, a potential plant waiting for its moment to grow. It has what it needs to begin. But it can also put itself on pause. It can wait.

If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

Breaks are needed after you play a long tour.

I'm terrible at taking breaks.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I take a breath when I have to.

You can't have a movie that's just 'Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom' constantly - you have to breathe.

As much as we adore what we do and we're eternally grateful, everyone needs a break sometimes. Everyone needs a few days just to breathe.

I always say a film should be given breathing space.