Public Shock Quotes

Ask anyone where they were when they heard of Diana's death, and they won't hesitate, because nobody can forget. Along with 9/11, it remains the most poleaxeing public event, news so shocking it made me shake, and drove everything else from my mind for days.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Women are surprised to see me on the street - like they're seeing a ghost. There's a lot of crying involved.

No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.

A lot of people are shocked when they hear that I played a 14-year-old.