Quotes About Surprise

It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.

I don't want to know what happens because I enjoy picking up a script and going, 'I do what?!'

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

I found olive oil and grated cheese all over my bed. I picked up my comforter, and it was on my sheets, my pillow.

When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!

If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.

I've done so many pilots I thought were good that didn't work, and so many that I thought were bad that did work.

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

My wallet is full of change. I'm like, Why is this bag so heavy? Oh, yeah. It's the $100 in quarters!

It was honestly like 'Annie.' One day I was alone in a cold, dark Eastern European orphanage, and then the next day I was in an enchanted, mystical land known as Walmart.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.