Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Louis B. Mayer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American producer Louis B. Mayer.

Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood.

American - Producer | July 12, 1884 - October 29, 1957

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I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.

Louis B. Mayer

America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.

Louis B. Mayer

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.

Louis B. Mayer

The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.

Louis B. Mayer

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

Louis B. Mayer

Well, do anything, if you do something right, we'll use it, and if you do something wrong, we'll fix it, but do something and do it now.

Louis B. Mayer

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

Louis B. Mayer

Be smart, but never show it.

Louis B. Mayer