Quotes About Surprise

I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

It sounds terribly cynical, but the real surprise in the Philando Castile case is not that the officer was acquitted but that he was charged at all. The prosecutors in the case deserve great credit for even trying. But no one should be shocked about how it turned out.

First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to anybody. Third of all, you know, I was actually terrified of being named, of being identified.

We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Terror works by surprise.

I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

A guy I knew in high school got my number from my mom, called me up and was like, 'I can't believe I'm talking to you.' I was like, 'It's me - it's Terry; I went to high school with you! What do you mean?'

I was the kid who'd get up in class and tell the teacher, 'But we were supposed to have a test today! I studied for it!'

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

Michael looked around and realized that he was in a school library, with a life-size cutout of Alex Rider staring at him from the opposite side of the room.

Michael looked around and realised that he was in a school library, with a life-size cut-out of Alex Rider staring at him from the opposite side of the room.

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I've just put a dice in my tea.

Rose! Get out of the way!" It was the Doctor. But for a moment she couldn't recognize him. It wasn't just because he was carrying a huge gun, and was aiming it directly at her. It was the cold determination on his face. She could have taken the anger, she would have been all right with that. But not the coldness. "No," she said. And a flutter of something else that was new across the Doctor's face. Surprise? No, more - shock. "I'm not going to let you do this," she said.

As I in hoary winter night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised was I with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was nearA pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear.