Quotes About Unexpected

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

'The Room' came out in 2003, really to crickets. Nobody showed up to see it. It made $1800 at the box office. Everyone assumed it was going to disappear.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Sometimes things are a blessing in disguise.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.

'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

Falling in love has no convenient time, it can happen anytime and anywhere.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

I got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.

I accidentally met Don Callis in Japan. I was at New Japan and I was with mutual friends, and I met Don on accident and started telling him some of my ideas. We started talking and he basically at dinner was saying, 'Hey, we should give you a job.'

One of the perks is when John Mayer calls you up and tells you, 'Hey, buddy, I just bought a ranch in Montana. When are you gonna come by? When are we gonna hang out?' It's just not something I ever expected to happen.

Stand-up on the telly is one thing, but seeing it live is something else. There are brilliant comedians playing to rooms above pubs and arts centres around the corner from where you live. And anything could happen at a live gig.