Jerry Weintraub Quotations

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

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.

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

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 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.

I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.'

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.