Quotes About Surprise

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Someone at Tidal came to our show in New York in 2016, and I guess he was expecting, like, K-Pop. But he was surprised: he saw we were doing R&B and hip hop authentically.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.

Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I've had just the opposite experience.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

When I got a call to see if I wanted a Derby horse, I said, 'Damn!'

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.

Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.

I can't believe that The Hour' has been axed.

I had never, ever thought about being on any 'Real Housewives' show, so it was interesting to actually be on one.

'Desperate Housewives' worked out beautifully. I went out for that before it began airing, and no one had any idea it was going to turn into what it did.

No one would have ever thought College GameDay would be coming to the University of Houston, I know that.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

I was so shocked by how many people watched 'Lois and Clark.'

When you launch a game, you really don't know how many people are going to show up.