Sherry Lansing Quotations

The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.

I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

It's cost-effective to shoot there, and the people welcome you with open arms, so I love it.

When you have a great actor, you really want to support them and you want to support them with an incredible campaign. I am hoping for a lot of ties.

I had a very nice ending (with) all that stuff you dream about.

I always thought if I was lucky enough to achieve the dreams I had in the movie business ... and to be economically secure, that I wanted to give back. I wanted to have a third chapter that was about giving back and about the things I cared about, and also I wanted to have fun.