Jerry Weintraub
Jerry Weintraub
Jerome Charles "Jerry" Weintraubwas an American talent agent, concert promoter, film producer and actor whose television films won him three Emmys...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth26 September 1937
CountryUnited States of America
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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 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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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
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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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'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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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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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.'
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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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I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.
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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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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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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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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'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.