Surprise Quotes

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

The pleasant surprise for me is that when I look into Tony's eyes, he's still 100% present, sharing everything that's going on. Acting with him is like a beautiful dance.

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

I can be a lady - surprise!

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.