Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

God makes stars. I just produce them.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

In two words, impossible.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

If you don't dissagree with me, how will I know I'm right?

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers

I never liked you, and I always will.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

Tell them to stand closer apart.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

There is a statue of limitation.

Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.

They stayed away in droves.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Let's have some new cliches.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.

For your information, I would like to ask a question.

Gentlemen, include me out.

What we need now is some new, fresh clichés.