Quotes About Skill

My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.

Tim Duncan was a marvelous player. He played the game from the four, the five position. He was one of the unique players, like a Michael Jordan, who could get to spaces on the floor you that you couldn't do anything about.

Seriously, you tell me, if you aim at something, and then hit it time and time again, was it luck or did you just do what you were trying to do?

All the time, people are always saying to me that I need to shoot more.

For the longest time people were like, 'Oh you play soccer, what else do you do?' Cause they couldn't believe that you could just be women's professional athlete. That's really frustrating because it's almost devaluing your actual skill and ability.

Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

I haven't just got a fight IQ - and I'm clever. I've got that power. I've got that movement. I've got that timing.

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either 'got it or you don't.'

The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.

The audience has reacted well to my comic timing. But, I also have other aspects to my acting talent.

Over the years, you get better at timing because you've been through the situations thousands of times. The ball goes over your head; he passes you on the right, left. Eventually, you just know what you have to do.

As much effort it takes in nailing great comic timing, it takes the same effort to ace any dance step or a romantic dialogue. All of them have their different space.

I have to perform every time I'm in the car, and show that I'm capable, and I need a little bit of timing and luck to come together.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

I believe I'm better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.

Everybody's been blessed with something, and my gift is my timing. Let's face it, it's all about keeping time and having a groove.