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Company Quotes


"When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company."


"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."


"We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios."


"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."


"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you."


"I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey."


"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."


"I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs."


"I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company."


"I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company."


"When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.'"


"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen."


"I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately."


"The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor."


"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."


"It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it."


"Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."


"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."



"It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods."


"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."


"We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot."


"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well."


"If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good."


"The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me."


"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."


"It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine."


"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."


"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company."


"I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have."
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