Jerry Weintraub Quotes

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

  Jerry Weintraub

  Choices, Path, Lost

  Jerry Weintraub (2010). “When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• I just don't believe that you can't make anything happen. 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.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  "Jerry Weintraub’s Production Values". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Matter, Things That Matter, Only Thing That Matters

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

  Jerry Weintraub

  World, Something New

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• As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Starting Over, Feels, Comfortable

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

  Jerry Weintraub

  Philosophy, Worry, Would Be

  Jerry Weintraub (2010). “When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Winning, Trying, Failing

  "‘When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead’: Lessons From The Stock Market Collapse" by Jerry Weintraub, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• The best thing that happened from that situation when I failed was the fact that I failed and I failed because I was trying to do things that I don't like to do. I like to make movies and I like the creative process. I don't really care about the business end of it. It's not my thing. So I was all of sudden totally immersed in the business end of it and dealing with human resources, lawyers, and accountants, and so on. It wasn't for me.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Creative, Trying, Care

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Jerry Weintraub

  Gaga

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• I know everybody. 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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  People, Guy, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As my life went on and I met Frank Sinatra and people like that, and I watched live performers on stage, I learned how to tell a story. Because if you listen to Sinatra, all of his songs are stories; there's a beginning, middle, and end. So that's where it comes from.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Song, People, Frank

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• George Clooney says that I'm "the last of your kind." That's a nice quote. I kind of like that quote. 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. I have a code of honor about life and that's what he meant. And you don't need a contract with me.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Nice, Lying, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Hate, Believe, Fearless

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Mean, Enjoy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

  Jerry Weintraub

  Want

  Jerry Weintraub (2010). “When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do.

  Jerry Weintraub

  People, Criticize

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Pauline Kael had seen Nashville, and she loved Nashville. When I called her, she immediately responded to me because we had become friends, and I told her how great this film was, and she told me, "Well, I'll have to see it for myself." So I showed it to her, and she flipped.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am humble. It was an honor, and I cried the first time I saw the film His Way. Because to have people of that caliber, like Julia Roberts, take the time to sit down and give a day or two of their lives to a film about me, that they're not getting paid for, is pretty extraordinary.

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  Humble, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night. I never went to sleep without her reading to me. And she fantasized about the book and she would talk about it, the place, and you would think that after she read the book and after she told you stories about it, that she had actually been there. I learned about story from her, and I learned the value of a great story, and the value of great characters.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Mother, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Money! They go together. Franchise; money. Money; franchise.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a good party guest...the problem is, I feel like I'm working all the time. "Give us an Elvis Presley story! Give us a Frank Sinatra story!"

  Jerry Weintraub

  Party, Giving, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That story about the two women in my life is - a lot of people get upset, a lot of people question it. Steven Soderbergh said to me, "The story of your life is incredible. The real story of your life that's interesting, more interesting than all the other stuff - the franchises, the movies, the songs, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra - the real thing that's interesting and unbelievable is the relationship with these two women. And if you're willing to put that out there, you know then, you're going to have a great movie. Because that's the movie."

  Jerry Weintraub

  Song, Real, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

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  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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