Life Surprises Quotes

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

You never know what could happen.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don't really know what it's about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.

My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!"

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Planning is like taking on blinders. I think it is a wise thing to be open to whatever shows up on your doorstep.