Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Surprises can be compelling.

It was a surprise for my family when I told them that I was offered 'Madras Cafe.' My family was initially worried because I have got no film background.

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

I love to be surprised.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

I'm surprised how many people are into vinyl.

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I don't believe in rankings. Sometimes the rankings surprise me. I don't think it's fair to judge a team on the basis of rankings.

When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.

Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

When you're around for as long as I have, nothing surprises you any more.

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.