Karl Pilkington Quotes

Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

You always wonder what's going to happen in a Brock Lesnar match, but if you see Brock every week, it's not as special.

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

I always liked situations where there were very clear rules of what to do.

Predictability can eventually be defended.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

It's hard to shock people, especially when people want to know, like, spoilers and stuff like that.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

The start of the game is a bit of a tone-setter for what's to come, but that's not always the case.

We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.

I've always been kind of a play-by-the-rules girl; I tend to like things structured, predictable, and sometimes even a little boring.