Quotes About Surprise

I always tell people this; when they say, 'What's gonna happen here? What's gonna happen here?' I always tell people, 'You think you want to know, but you really don't. You want to experience the event as it happens on TV.'

They say it can all change with one song, and in my case, that rings very true, I was shocked that it happened this quickly.

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

As long as you can throw people a curveball, that's what you're looking for. Because the minute they can define you, the minute they think they know exactly who you are, is when it starts to wear thin.

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

And one more thing.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.

Well, the most incredible thing about 'Fable' is the fact that there are lots of examples where people play the game in a certain way and things happen that were never designed to happen.

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

Everybody thinks they know me. They think I'm an easy fighter, but when cage door closes, they feel my power. I'm a completely different fighter. They've never fought against someone like me but they have to feel it on their skin.

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.