Steven Moffat Quotes

I guess I'm a little charmed. I never thought this would happen so quick.

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.'

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it's about how she grows up in New York. There's no obvious reason why I should enjoy this - I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I'm a guy from a small town in Denmark.

The greatest relationships are often the unexpected ones.

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 had never heard of Meghan before. I was beautifully surprised when I walked into that room and saw her, and there she was, sitting there. I thought, 'I am really going to have to up my game here, sit down, and make sure I've got a good chat.'

It's nice to squash people's expectations.

I've been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would say, but I am.

I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

I kind of have to pinch myself. A lot of my dreams are coming true.

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.