Quotes About Shock

A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have always dominated their films. It's a way to shock the senses, to make them open themselves.

We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

Don't be afraid to shock people or be unexpected.

I've seen a lot in my life and nothing really shocked me, just being where I'm from. But this was unexpected. It just hit me, like, I have cancer? Me?

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.

When in doubt, freak 'em out.

When I moved from Canada to Korea, I experienced a massive culture shock. I wasn't familiar with Korean culture at all and was very surprised at the hierarchical elements of Korean culture. However, at the time I was determined to succeed so I became a sponge and just soaked in everything I could.

After 2014, a number of my friends from Delhi rang up very concerned because they thought I was in bad health. But my health has always been good, and I told them so. They told me that this is what Baijayant Panda was spreading. This was a shock.

The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.

I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

I've read better fecal matter patterns on toilet paper.