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

• We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • World

• Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

  

  Bill Nunn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Positive

• If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.

  

  George Washington
  • Christian
  • Atheist
  • Workmen

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

  

  Brett Ratner