I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
I was at Target the day after my kinda debut on 'True Blood,' and I got recognized right away. I was very surprised. It caught me off-guard.
So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.
Do one thing today to move yourself towards a big goal. Repeat tomorrow, and the next day. You'll be surprised at how fast you'll attain it!
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.
I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because I wanted to be an actor. My parents are both teachers.
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.
People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.
hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actually surprise you in the best of ways.
