Brett Ratner Quotes

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

Brett Ratner

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• I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Freedom
  • Running
  • Start

• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Business
  • Interesting

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Night

• I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.

  

  Cam
  • Time
  • Things
  • Agree

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

  

  Rajneesh
  • You
  • Decision
  • Choose

• With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Become
  • Calling
  • Became

• It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Care

• Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Water

• I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Kind
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Up
  • World
  • Value

• I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Like

• In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • God

• Sisley, I hear, is seriously ill. He is a great and beautiful artist, in my opinion he is a master equal to the greatest. I have seen works of his of rare amplitude and beauty, among others an 'Inundation' in the Camondo collection, which is a masterpiece.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Opinion

• I am the rich man's guru.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Guru

• You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

  

  Allyson Felix
  • Time
  • Wish

• I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Night
  • Justice
  • Guts

• We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • People
  • Opportunity

• We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Proud
  • Sun
  • Destiny

• I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • Great
  • Literature

• When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

  

  Brett Ratner