Grazer Quotes

#1. I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#2. If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant ... Fuck you.

Rich Hall

#3. Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

Brian Grazer

#4. You can't get anything done trying to absorb and neutralize everyone else's criticisms.

Brian Grazer

#5. I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

Brian Grazer

#6. I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.

Brian Grazer

#7. Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.

Brian Grazer

#8. Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Joseph Joubert

#9. You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

Brian Grazer

#10. WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

Brian Grazer

#11. The fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

Martin Buber

#12. Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#13. When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

David Mamet

#14. "No" is just a moment in time.

Brian Grazer

#15. I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements.

Brian Grazer

#16. To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

Coventry Patmore

#17. I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

Brian Grazer

#18. You can't search for the answer to questions that haven't been asked yet. And you can't Google a new idea. The Internet can only tell us what we already know.

Brian Grazer

#19. Curiosity - asking questions - isn't just a way of understanding the world. It's a way of changing it.

Brian Grazer

#20. My creative is curiosity conversations ... All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.

Brian Grazer

#21. When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

Brian Grazer

#22. They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

Brian Grazer

#23. We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

#24. She's an old man," he muttered. "The girl I like is a buff old man with a voice deeper than mine.

Rick Riordan

#25. Manners are really the basis for how we treat other people - manners are born out of compassion, empathy, the "golden rule." Manners are, quite simply, making people feel welcome, comfortable, and respected.

Brian Grazer

#26. I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.

Soundarya

#27. I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

R.L. LaFevers

#28. I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

Brian Grazer

#29. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

Zadie Smith

#30. I only make movies that are interesting to me.

Brian Grazer

#31. There is evidence that people do want to watch shows back to back - that's why DVR use is so high. When you're able to DVR something, people will watch more than one episode.

Brian Grazer

#32. The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brian Grazer

#33. All babies look like currant buns to me.

Jojo Moyes