Quotes About Surprise

I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.

If a player is receptive and really wants to learn and improve, you might be surprised what they are capable of doing.

No one saw the recession coming.

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

The holy grail of recipe developing is the recipe that turns out so much more impressive than you would expect from the effort it took to produce.

I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.

People recognise me from all over the country, which we didn't expect.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don't know at all can just be like, 'Oh my God - are you Billie?'

I'm shocked at being recognized.

It's always a shock to me when I get recognized.

I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.

You watch 'Malcolm X,' and then Netflix recommends 'B.A.P.S.,' and you're like, 'What? Those movies have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but OK.' They don't recommend other historical biopics - it's 'B.A.P.S.' and 'Ghost Dad.'

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

I recorded my first song, 'Greetings,' and it got so much attention on SoundCloud. I was not expecting that.