Jason Bateman Quotes

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.

Most of the time, I don't want to use anti-climatic, but sometimes you go out there thinking this is going to be the worst thing you've ever gotten yourself into, and then you get back to base and think, 'Wow, that wasn't anything like I expected.'

I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for me.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

In football, you never know what can happen.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

I never in a million years would have thought I would end up with Golden State.

In 2010, I was the star of a sitcom. It came and went pretty fast. But in the months from when I was cast in the sitcom through when it was done airing, my life did change remarkably.

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

I never thought I was going to be a comedian.

John Cena actually showed up to do a song with Snoop in L.A. and he walked in and was like, 'What the hell are you doing here?' I was like, 'You didn't know? I got let go. I'm back bodyguarding now. He was like, 'What? That's crazy!' I was like, 'It's all good. Good to see you. Appreciate it.'

One never knows how a bout is going to pan out and even in last 2-3 seconds things can change.

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

I never thought I'd be doing TV shows about real estate.

You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

Living in the 'Bigg Boss' house is a roller-coaster ride. I didn't expect to reach the finals. But I was sure that I would be in the top five.

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.