Jerry Weintraub Quotes

#1. Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

Bernie Mac

#2. The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.

Rich Cohen

#3. Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

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#4. When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it.

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#5. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

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#6. You can't "un-recgonize" something

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#7. Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

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#8. I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

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#9. Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

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#10. Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

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#11. I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

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#12. I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

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#13. It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

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#14. When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

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#15. People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

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#16. Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing - the world is changing - and it's all because of global warming, I think.

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#17. When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

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#18. Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

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#19. I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.

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#20. If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

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#21. I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

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#22. Will Smith is fantastic.

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#23. If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

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#24. 'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

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#25. I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

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#26. Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

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#27. This much I knew As soon as you feel comfortable that's when It's time to start over.

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#28. Savor life don't press too hard don't worry too much enjoy

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#29. I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

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#30. I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career.

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#31. The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.

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