Surprise Quotes

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

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

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

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.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

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.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

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

I can be a lady - surprise!

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.