I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.
One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
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.
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
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.
