Matthew Mercer Quotes

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

When it's a live performance, anything can happen.

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.

It's always a stunt acting opposite Robert Picardo, because you never know what he's going to do.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

I love when things don't go to plan.

When you make feature films, you have a script, which is a bible. The final result should be as it was written down on paper. And in documentary, you can write whatever you want, but life brings you situations where you have to be fast thinking, fast moving.

You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.

It's always a pleasant experience while acting because I like to surprise myself and the audience with what I do.

It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's when the best stories evolve.

It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

I'm not a big planner. Things always sort of surprise me.

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

You shouldn't strategize your career if you're in a creative realm. You can't either. I love the unknown. I love the element of surprise. I've always felt really inspired by it. I love the spontaneity of the job. I think you can't really fight against it.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.