Quotes About Surprise

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.

When people ask, 'How does it feel to be a dad?' Nothing I could've expected. It's better in such a different way. It's like unless you actually experience it, there's just no way you can explain with words.

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

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

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

I hate to disappoint.

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

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

Audiences like making discoveries.

When people go to the theater, they don't want to think 'I know exactly what I'm gonna get,' and then they get it and then they walk out. I think you want to walk in going 'I don't really know what this is about,' and have the fun of discovering it.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

It's strange to be getting into your dotage and suddenly discovering that you have a fanbase.

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

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

I know a lot of people weren't expecting 'BLACKSummers'Night' to be what it was, just like a lot of people weren't expecting 'Embrya' to be what it was. People will listen to what I've been a part of and see what I've done.

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

I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that has always interested me, whether in TV or comic books.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

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

I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think the audience gets bored very easily, and it's really important to keep experimenting.