I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.
The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
I'm quite surprised at how out of control I can be on stage because, actually, I find I like to be in control in life. It's quite freeing, really.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!
I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
When we tag ourselves with a particular label, we mustn’t be surprised when we attract others looking for our particular item.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.
I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.
