Surprise Performance Quotes

Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?

The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

I never thought I'd sing or dance on national television.

I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used to do stand-up. When they see me onstage, it's a surprise, and it's revelatory. I'm happy because I can do my old material, so everybody wins.

The girl voice is always going to kill because they don't expect it.

Paulinho will surprise many people. If he does not fit at Barca, he would at Atletico.

I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.

I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.

People always put me completely out of the game, and that's even nicer because nobody expects you to do a good job and then you do a better job than everybody thinks and it's nicer.