Startled Quotes

The leather catsuit I wore in The Avengers was a total nightmare; it took a good 45 minutes to get unzipped to go to the loo. It was like struggling in and out of a wet-suit. Once I got into the jersey catsuits they were very easy to wear but you had to watch for baggy knees; there is nothing worse. I got a lot of very odd fan mail while I was in that show, but my mum used to enjoy replying to it. Some of the men who wrote to me must have been a bit startled because she would offer really motherly advice. I would get a letter from a teenage boy, say, who was overexcited and my mother would write back saying: "My daughter is far too old for you and what you really need is a good run around the block."

"When I was five years old, I heard my first phonograph recording. I was in the pasture, with a pet pig of mine, and was startled by the sound of music coming from the house. When I got there, there was this little suitcase looking concern on the porch, with a crank, and music was coming from it. I couldn`t understand how all those people could fit inside that little suitcase." - From the 1990 Whitestar Biography "Gentleman Jim Reeves: The Story Of A Legend" (Interview recorded in 1964)

I wanted to act, but I`d always been convinced that actors had to be handsome. That came from the days when Errol Flynn was my idol. I`d come out of a theater and be startled when I looked in a mirror because I didn`t look like Flynn. I felt like him.

It (rumors of his homosexuality) was just a blatant lie put on the Internet, and then it was just a feeding frenzy... And I`m sure it was validated by my recent roles. What startled me was how willingly people accepted it. Interview with The Advocate.

It`s because we are so flooded with American culture that we`re startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man`s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

Their first goal kind of startled us, but we didn`t panic. We`re an experienced side and knew it was a matter of just getting going.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn`t make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks` vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman`s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

(Some fans in Pennsylvania were so enthusiastic, they startled Gore. He was walking up the No. 9 fairway during the opening round when one guy, standing about 5 feet away, loudly yelled,) Go get `em, Jason! ... Dude, you don`t have to yell. I`m right here.

It was very different then, and it`s probably more different now. We would be very startled to go back now. But the tug is still there. It`s so close to our beginnings.