Mayer Quotes:

I listen to John Mayer when I get ready. He's my calmer.

- Gigi Hadid

topic: Ready, Mayer, Calmer

I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.

- Jessica Simpson

topic: Negative, Adore, Mayer

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

- James Rainwater

topic: Understanding, Triumph, Suggestions, Mayer

There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.

- Karina Longworth

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Book, Fall, Writing, Mayer, Memos

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

- Camila Cabello

source: Source: www.teenvogue.com

topic: Emotional, Listening, Music Is, Mayer

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

source: "Billie Joe Armstrong and Lee Kirk on Ordinary World, Jamming With Fred Armisen, and Turning 40". Interview with Dee Lockett, www.vulture.com. Ocotber 16, 2016.

topic: Hbo, Broadway, Directors, Mayer

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

- Debbie Reynolds

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: New York, Stars, Cities, Fosse, Mayer

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

- Esther Williams

topic: Office, Yards, Firsts, Mayer

Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

- Dorothea Lasky

topic: Flying, Currents, Force, Plath, Electrical

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

- Chuck Eddy

topic: School, Hawthorne, Meticulous, Tempting, Mayer

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

- Mayer Hawthorne

topic: Song, Rap, Writing, 80s And 90s, Encyclopedia

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

- Jim Jarmusch

topic: Mistake, Vacation, Years, Thesis, Mayer

Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.

- Bob Hope

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: America, Cameras, Lions, Mayer

In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.

- Bob Hope

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

topic: Funny, Rain, Weather, Metro, Weathermen

Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.

- Edward Jay Epstein

topic: War, Hard Work, Dark, Nickelodeon, Perversity

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.

- Angela Lansbury

topic: House, Hollywood, Desks, Mayer

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

- Lew Wasserman

topic: Artist, Directors, May, Mayer

Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on my acting.

- Van Heflin

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

topic: Girl, Acting, Said, Happy Girl, Mayer

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

- Kiefer Sutherland

topic: Play, Guitar, Favourite, Paige, Mayer

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

- Taylor Swift

source: "Taylor Swift: 100 Miles an Hour and Not Slowing Down". Interview with Annie Reuter, www.marieclaire.com. June 22, 2009.

topic: Pain, Thinking, Brilliant, T Pain, Mayer

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.

- Susane Colasanti

topic: Life, Song, Answers, Mayer

[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?

- Janet Evanovich

topic: Morning, Grandma, Drinking, Mortuary, Kenny

But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again.

- Susane Colasanti

topic: Song, Rocks, Wheels, Mayer

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

- Mayer Hawthorne

topic: Thinking, Soul, Together, Hawthorne, Mayer

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk. Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.

- Joseph L. Mankiewicz

source: "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by Leslie Halliwell, Harper Collins, p. 312, 2003.

topic: Jobs, Writing, Definitions, Metro, Mayer

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

- Jackie Cooper

topic: Father, Daddy, Remember, Mayer

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

- Susane Colasanti

topic: Dancing, Rooms, Burning, Mayer

I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I'd own the world by now.

- Janis Ian

topic: Play, Fans, Doe, Mayer

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

- Joan Crawford

topic: Office, Bricks, Income, Mayer

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

- Lea Michele

topic: Spring, August, Years, Spring Awakening, Duncan

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

- Hedy Lamarr

topic: Glasses, People, Water, Insulted, Mayer

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

- Ed Koch

topic: Age, Twelve, Born, Garlands, Metro

I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.

- Hunter Hayes

topic: Artist, Black, Development, Soulfulness, Mayer

My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!

- Jackson Harris

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Idols, Watches, Wanted, Mayer