Quotes About Surprise

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.

It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.

I love surprising the fans.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise!

At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

I think it really changes things when you're able to get married. I mean, the Marriage Equality Act was super important. I think you cannot believe it happened as fast as it did. For a lot of gay people, it's very surprising. You thought that this is going to be a struggle forever.

Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.