Brett Ratner Quotes

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

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• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Up
  • Find

• I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Taste
  • Away
  • Classic

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mother

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • School
  • Team

• If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Child
  • Understand
  • Born

• I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did i see to be except myself?

  

  Lucille Clifton

• So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Art
  • Lost

• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • God
  • Help

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

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People
  • Up
  • Expectation

• Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Think
  • Christ

• At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

  

  Brett Ratner
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