Joey Soloway Quotes

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

I don't want to be predictable at all.

Sometimes it pays to be a little wild.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

It's good to be unexpected with it.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)