Surprise Quotes - Page 20

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

My brain surprises even me sometimes.

I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.

Nothing about me surprises me.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

Surprise is the secret of joy.

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. And then you can really surprise yourself. There's that cliche, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader!"

As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

You are such a chick.” I widened my eyes in mock surprise. “No way. Are you sure?

Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.