I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.
I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself.
Fans are so grateful when you go places they don't expect you to go.
I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.
The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men but by the little ones.
This was the last letter she wrote from the White House after her husband was assassinated.
She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
It's amazing how people can surprise you.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.
My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.
Quickly, Holly," said Artemis urgently. "Follow those bubbles." Holly opened the throttle. "Now there's an order I never thought I'd hear from you.
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
I think it is OK to surprise people.
I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.
I love looking completely different and that my fans won't always know what I'm going to do.
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
The political establishment, they don't know what to do about Trump because they said, oh, the immigration thing will kill him. First, they said he'll never run, and then he ran. Then they said he'll never file his financial disclosures. He filed and on time. Then they said, he's going to fall flat on his face.
Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.