It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.
'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes.
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.
The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.
Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming.
I love it when I surprise photographers that, despite the fact that I am deaf, I am capable of meeting their vision. I love it that I can read their body language and know what they do not like and what they do like.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
