A Quote by Melissa De Sousa

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better. — © Melissa De Sousa
I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.
Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.
I don't know if I have actually good comedic timing. But I don't think I've worked at any timing. I think timing is probably something you can't work at. Well, I don't know. I definitely didn't work at it.
Rhythm and timing are so important in comedic acting.
It's so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.
My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.
Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?
I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.
As I've grown as a person and gotten to know myself more - the question of how someone becomes who they become has gotten really interesting to me.
I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.
Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I hope to get to in my profession. That I'm not just an actor, I'm a storyteller. And I think that takes a long time in, when you have one job on a movie set. Makeup artists, actor, whatever. To graduate from just that to storyteller.
I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.
With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.
A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.
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