Grazer Quotes & Sayings

Clarissa, I was calling to ask if you wanted to go to the Laker game tonight."
Now, Clarissa was hurt. "This is really last minute."
"I know, I'm sorry. I just got the tickets."
"As I see it," Clarissa said, recovering, "you have two problems: One, I have plans, and two, I hate baseball."
"Basketball," Aaron said. — Gigi Levangie Grazer

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

If you have never read the Protocols, you know nothing about the Jewish question. — Henry Hamilton Beamish

Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity. — Brian Grazer

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

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

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts. — Philip Massinger

Sometimes I wish I could be the kind of person who has one-night stands, and instead of feeling guilty about it feels empowered by it. But I'm not. — Caprice Crane

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

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone. — Brian Grazer

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

I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf. — Brian Grazer

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'. — Brian Grazer

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

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

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

We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [ J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize he is. — Brian Grazer

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

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

You can't get anything done trying to absorb and neutralize everyone else's criticisms. — Brian Grazer

I only make movies that are interesting to me. — Brian Grazer

"No" is just a moment in time. — Brian Grazer

Fear is the killer of a great future life. — Debasish Mridha

Failure to die is always appreciated. — Mira Grant

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other! — Jeffrey R. Holland

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

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

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now. — Sri Chinmoy

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. — Loretta Lynch

Curiosity - asking questions - isn't just a way of understanding the world. It's a way of changing it. — Brian Grazer

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

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

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