Quotes About Surprise

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.

The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

I was surprised that everyone calls it 'morning sickness,' because it lasted all day. For me, it was even worse at night. During my first two pregnancies, I felt so nauseous all day that I could only eat plain toast and bland foods - no proteins.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.

Yes, my clothes don't reflect my personality at all. Because I'm a very straightforward and serious person. My clothes are much flasher than I am. Yeh. Yeh, yeh. It's a good contrast. I don't think your clothes should reflect your personality... keep people on their toes.

You can never make an assumption about the conversation you are about to have with somebody. People will always surprise you, which is what keeps you on your toes.

One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

There's nothing quite like exiting a toilet cubicle and seeing a girl running towards you with her hand over her mouth.

Toilets are the best place for awards.

The first day in Tokyo was disorientating - all neon, gadgets and extreme politeness - but I was surprised to find that I have a lot in common with the Japanese because they're bonkers about food.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

How powerful it is to surprise a total stranger with a really nice act: buy them a cup of coffee, pay their toll. It makes their day; it makes your day.

One day, you're talking with Tom Hardy; the next day, you have Nicole Kidman kissing your feet. I never thought I'd be able to say that in my lifetime, Nicole Kidman kissing my feet. It's mad.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

Failure is good preparation for success, which comes as a pleasant surprise, but success is poor preparation for failure.

We married other people, had children. I still can't believe it. I might never believe it.

Later she would think about how he'd snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches - what was he, a ninja or something?

I thought you said he was your twin?" "Under that hair and beard, he is.

Funny how life messed with you.