Rob Dyrdek Quotes

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

There is never any precedent until it happens for the first time.

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

Any time you have an opportunity to do something for the first time, it's super exciting, and I just want to soak up everything, and each experience... just to say that you've represented your country at the Olympics, it's such a rare opportunity.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

I like to remind the contestants where they are by playing the 'Bake Off' theme tune on my phone as they walk into the tent. They freak out, as it suddenly dawns on them that they're on the show.

The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were.

I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

We never do the same set twice.

It's always nice for the judges and the audiences to have something a bit different so they don't always see and hear the same thing.

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

When I watch television, I want to be surprised.

I'd rather do comedy. I'd rather make people laugh than cry.

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

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.

You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.