Quotes About Surprise

A lot of actors get the leading role after doing a bunch of smaller things and people get to know them. I came out of nowhere.

It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

The greatest thing that has ever happened is whenever I see people in the street, a smile comes on their face straight away and I'm like, 'How did that happen?'

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I've already... if the camera's on you, your face is very concentrated. You're listening. You don't know what I'm going to say next, and now you're smiling. All these things are the things I work with.

I've been telling people I need to start smiling to my opponents and shaking hands and just being nice, so then when the bell rings, I catch them off-guard, because I used to catch people off-guard, but everyone's ready now.

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

You gotta be ready in this game. Like when Michael Bisping knocked out Luke Rockhold. I thought... everybody thought that Luke Rockhold would go out there and just smoke him and then Luke Rockhold got clipped.

A young fella snuck out on to the field somehow, but when he was coming up to give me a hug, he got smoked by the guard. He was lucky the guy didn't break his ribs.

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren't expecting me to go and do it.

I had never thought that so many people would know me, will talk about me, and most of all, I will be given a National Award.

I didn't expect to be successful, but I am glad that so many people love the show.

I love making 'iCarly' - it's so much fun, and I love getting the script every week and not really knowing what insane thing I'm going to be doing. It's just like an adventure every episode; that's really fun.

I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

When several years ago an NYU colleague mentioned to Ross that LSD had once been used to treat thousands of alcoholics in Canada and the United States (and that Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, had sought to introduce LSD therapy into AA in the 1950s), Ross, who was in his thirties at the time, did some research and was "flabbergasted" by all that he—as an expert on the treatment of alcoholism—did not know and hadn't been told.

What if?" Fick asked. "What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!

I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.

L'amore ci si parò dinanzi come un assassino sbuca fuori in un vicolo, quasi uscisse dalla terra, e ci colpì subito entrambi. Così colpisce il fulmine, così colpisce un coltello a serramanico!