Brett Ratner Quotes

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.

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.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

Sometimes it's important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.

For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

That's what I love - to be pushed out of my comfort zone.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.