Quotes About Surprise

I never dreamed that I would be autographing Playbills.

I would have never ever dreamed of my career playing out the way it did.

I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.

You never know in 'Riverdale' who's going to drop off next.

I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.

The beauty of American elections is that anything can happen.

I didn't expect people would embrace 'Ang Probinsyano' the way they did during its first year.

You never know what emotions will emerge. They can come on suddenly, when you least expect them.

I can't stand it when groups come back for an encore, and they play some slow thing. Oh, brother! It's like, 'Had I known that, I would've left.'

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

I thought 'Benson' was going to be more of an ensemble show. But it was called 'Benson' for a reason.

My job is to entertain you, leave feeling better than when you got there, and try to give you more than you thought you were gonna get.

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

Pataas' will be an out and out commercial entertainer and there will a mind game. Audiences can't expect what will happen next.

When I got together with Alec it took me a while to understand. I knew nothing about him before I met him. I'd never had a TV in my entire life, I knew nothing about it.

Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself.

But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.

I often hear that those are people's favorite episodes, the ones with people that they don't know. That's the magic of 'Hot Ones.'

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.