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9 Louis B. Mayer Quotes

Louis B. Mayer provides candid thoughts on collaboration, leadership and integrity, aimed at those who value honest, behind-the-scenes insight.

Louis B. Mayer quotes

  1. I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.

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  2. You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

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  3. The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

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  4. Don't make these pictures any better. Just keep them the way they are.

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  1. Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.

  2. The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.

  3. America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

  4. Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

  5. Be smart, but never show it.