Lew Wasserman Quotes

#1. I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

Sidney Sheinberg

#2. Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Lew Wasserman

#3. President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

Lew Wasserman

#4. Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Stephen Crane

#5. That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

Lew Wasserman

#6. That, Kuwei, is the sound that death makes when she comes calling.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

James Inhofe

#8. A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Dennis Ritchie

#9. I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.

Lew Wasserman

#10. He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing into an airplane were really giving vent to a subconscious desire to climb back into the womb.

Joseph Heller

#11. Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.

Will Smith

#12. Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

Deborah Cox

#13. You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

Lew Wasserman

#14. Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

Lew Wasserman

#15. I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

Lew Wasserman

#16. Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.

Lew Wasserman

#17. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

#18. Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

Lew Wasserman

#19. There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous.

Max Maven

#20. This country will not be a peaceful place for us to live if we do not make it to be a peaceful place with our fists. Only with our fists, we can make this country a peaceful place to live.

Khem Veasna

#21. And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God.

Richard J. Foster

#22. We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

Lew Wasserman

#23. If we avoid junk foods that are high in sugar or fats and nothing else, about the only way we can fail to get enough protein is if we are on a diet that is insufficient in calories.36 Protein

Peter Singer

#24. To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Lew Wasserman

#25. I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

Lew Wasserman

#26. I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

Lew Wasserman

#27. To me, it's the White House and always will be.

Lew Wasserman