Louis B. Mayer Quotes

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

So I do make a real effort that all of my videos are things that, if I had kids, I wouldn't mind them watching.

I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

Keeping it clean is important to me because I'm just aware of my audience. My audience is a younger generation and, just in general, I wouldn't want to show my mom a video of me swearing like crazy. It's good clean fun.

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Traditional Judeo-Christian values literally hang in the balance in America. They can be 'forgotten' in a single generation if they are not taught to children and teenagers... It could happen here if we don't defend what we believe.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Actors, producers and directors have a responsibility. My personal pledge, since I became a mother 12 years ago, is that I won't be in any project my daughter can't watch. I'm trying to prepare her for the world.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.