Quotes About Surprise

It's hard to comprehend beating Barcelona 8-2.

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 love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

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

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

It's fun when you're confusing people.

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

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.

I never feel like I've done anything. Swear to God. I'm not kidding. So it's always a surprise when somebody asks me to do anything.

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.

I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.

Once, after I had just worked out, I hopped on the elevator at the gym only to look up and see Conan O'Brien on it with me. I was so sad. I was all sweaty, but I love him so much, and I couldn't help but nerd out on him.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.

I never thought I would ever win a Daytona 500. I never thought we would sweep Bristol. I just never thought any of that stuff was going to happen or be possible.

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.

When we wrote 'Avenue Q,' we worked hard to create something that could be funny and satirical but also had some surprise moments of heart, moments when the music itself could become a central player and create something sweet and moving.

Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.

As soon as the audience thinks they know where I'm going, I switch it around.

Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.