Mel Giedroyc Quotes

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

I love the rush of doing live TV - you never know what will happen next.

When it's a live performance, anything can happen.

I think that no number of rehearsals can guarantee the outcome of a live show.

Some nights you just can't predict what's going to happen live for an hour.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I like life to surprise me.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

You want the match to be like a roller coaster, so you can't predict it.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.