Louis B. Mayer Quotes

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

Louis B. Mayer

#2. Be smart, but never show it.

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#3. Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

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

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

Louis B. Mayer