Quotes About Unexpected

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

Until you get left for Mr. Bean, you don't realise how frequently he pops up. There's a shop two streets from my house that sells masks of his face. There's nowhere where I'm going to go that he's not there.

People use mobile phones in this very distracting environment where you probably don't have time to watch a 30-minute film, but you might have time to look at a film for a minute and learn something you didn't expect while you walk on the streets.

We were super successful under Mark Sampson because teams didn't expect us to play the way we played. We were so direct and played to people's strengths.

I never would've thought of going on 'Strictly,' I mean, I went on because it's my mum's favourite programme in the world.

No one predicted Mercury would be a planetary core with the mantle stripped off. No one predicted volcanoes on the Jovian moons, or oceans on the inside of them. I can tell you, for every single planet, huge 'we never guessed that' things.

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.

Look at 'Dulhe Raja.' It was a film made very quietly on the sidelines, and suddenly, when the film was released, it struck gold. I never expected the film to do well.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

My work life is pretty much the opposite of what you would expect.

I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.

It's funny, the only song I didn't want to do originally was 'Oh So Quiet.' And it was the best performance and changed the game for me.

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

It's pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.