Unexpected Experiences Quotes

That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal.

Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Travel is best when it's as unplanned as possible so that you get that real sense of adventure. The film 'Thelma and Louise' really encapsulates that - their travels are unplanned and spontaneous and therefore full of excitement, escapism and optimism.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what's going to happen next.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

It's funny where life can take you.

If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you're going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Life will take you in all kinds of unexpected directions and it certainly did with me.

A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.