I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one would want to marry me and she thought that was the most important thing. And she thought that… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so young you can wait. And I had… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
I see the joy in life and I see the joy in simple things. I over-compliment. I over-praise. I over-express my feelings toward people… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people. — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that I worry about everything. Not every day, I don't want to say it like that, but I do worry a lot about - what was the line I heard the other day, when I was saying to a… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share
My advice to everybody - never give up and have great resiliency. Don't take the rejection personally, but listen if it’s intelligent and make… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
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… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
I felt like a fake the whole time and it made me very, very nervous - which is why I have such great respect for actors, because I can't do what they do. I really can't do it. I'm always uncomfortable. And I'm just grateful that I recognized that this uncomfortable-ness was a sign that I shouldn't be doing it.… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share
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… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share
This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share
To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way. — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself. — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
