#surprise

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#actually #continuously #goes #language #mysterious

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#become #blur #caught #celebrity #easily

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#half #hunt #life #manageable #more

I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show. ↗

— Steve Burns

#big #big surprise #children #down #fans

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#come #first #had #i #know

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#cause #economical #everything #lazy #myself

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#mind #only #own #questions #rarely

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. ↗

— Josh Billings

#evidence #greater #nothing #superior #surprised

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #effortless #first #first time #game