Quotes About Surprise

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.

I was completely shocked - two Grammy nominations. I've said it out loud to myself about 100 times.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

You just never know what the grand plan is on 'Dexter,' so I didn't know if I was going to make it to the next episode, let alone the next season!

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

I was with a Russian family, and I couldn't believe that the grandparents in Russia, first of all I was shocked and delighted to find that the Russian family that I'd been told was so different from the American family, was exactly the same.

We played one show in Bangalore in a field where they'd never had a rock show before and when we got there, they were actually cutting the grass with scissors.

Fans are so grateful when you go places they don't expect you to go.

I had kind of written the script for my life, I thought. I had the great job, great wife and a boy and a girl and then here's this script that we're following and suddenly adoption comes into the picture. That was the huge unscripted moment in my life which led to many, many others.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

That's the great thing about golf is you never know who is going to win. On good, tough golf courses, it brings it back to the best players. But it's always the best player that week is going to win. I mean, so it could be anybody.

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you.

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

I want to keep people guessing.

I like to keep people guessing.

Guys aren't used to out-of-the-blue compliments.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!

I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.

The drag queen walks into a Catholic church as the priest is coming down the aisle swinging the incense pot. And he says to the priest, "Oh, honey, I love your dress, but did you know your handbag's on fire?