Quotes About Unexpected

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

Hogan's' came from left field. It isn't 'McHale's' and it isn't 'Combat.' You can't categorize it.

People a lot of times have expectations for combinations, if you can throw something that they don't expect or throw something in a way that they don't expect it, it can be pretty successful.

I never thought I was going to be a comedian.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.

I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.

I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident.

My career is a very happy accident. I never studied communications.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

Anything can happen in life. You take your car, you drive your car every day in the same road and one day you just have no concentration - accident. That's part of life. It can happen to anybody.

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

Running for Congress isn't something I ever thought I would do.

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

We've met so many people you'd never even suspect of being Slayer fans: suits, lawyers, and people like that.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

I always see celebs in very weird spots. I don't always go to fancy-shmancy places, but I see celebs at coffee shops or random stores, when you're looking for a sweater and turn around like, 'OMG, that's Fred Savage!'

I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't have been able to write a book that did as well as it did, and that book should never have been made into a movie. Yet, here I am.

Once, in third grade, we switched classes and nobody knew until our mother stepped in.

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.