Max Roach Quotes

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

Why the hell didn't I know about this?

I never thought they would come

I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

Anything can happen. That's why sports are so great, the unexpected.