Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

- Dave Eggers

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.

- Jeff Kinney

I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.

- Joan Rivers

When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars', people were really shocked and surprised.

- Jerry Springer

I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!'

- Graham Moore

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

- Gus Van Sant

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

- Ernst Zundel

Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.

- Elizabeth McGovern

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

- Elizabeth McCracken

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

- D. Elton Trueblood

I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

- Adam McKay

I've done a lot of surveys and interacted with a lot of students, and I was shocked to see that at 12 years old, girls are already talking about dumbing themselves down.

- Danica McKellar

I'm shocked at being recognized.

- Dan Stevens

I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.

- Drew Carey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

- David Bailey

I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it.

- Chris Morris

Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.

- Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was shocked at the anger toward me.

- Bernadine Dohrn

I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.

- Aaron Douglas

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

- Alan Greenspan