Samuel Goldwyn Quotes & Sayings

#1. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

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#2. Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

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#3. Coffee is not my cup of tea

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#4. You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.

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#5. It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

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

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#7. If you've got a message, send a telegram.

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#8. Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

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#9. I have been laid up with intentional flu.

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#10. A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

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#11. If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.

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

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#13. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

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#14. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

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

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#16. Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

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#17. Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

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#18. We have passed a lot of water since then.

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#19. My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

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#20. God makes stars. I just produce them.

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#21. When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

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#22. I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

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#23. Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

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#24. Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

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

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#26. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

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

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#28. The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

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#29. If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

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#30. I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs.

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#31. This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

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#32. Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.

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#33. Don't improve it into a flop!

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#34. Tell them to stand closer apart.

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

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

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#37. The A-bomb is dynamite.

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

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#39. I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

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#40. A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

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#41. No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.

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

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#43. I never liked you, and I always will.

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#44. Spare no expense to save money on this one.

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#45. I can give you a definite perhaps.

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

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#47. The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

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#48. Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

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#49. Never make forecasts, especially about future.

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

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#51. It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers

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

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#53. Gentlemen, include me out.

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

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

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#56. Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

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#57. To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

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

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#59. In two words, impossible.

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#60. Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

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#61. Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

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#62. Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

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#63. I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

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

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#65. It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

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#66. Having integrity ... means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right ... what you feel you must do, regardless of the immediate cost of sacrifice ... to be honorable and to behave decently.

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#67. I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

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

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#69. Let's have some new cliches.

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#70. We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

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#71. The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

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#72. This book has too much plot and not enough story.

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#73. Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.

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#74. Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

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#75. Television has raised writing to a new low.

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#76. Yes, but keep copies.

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#77. Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

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

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#79. I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

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#80. I'm living beyond my means, but I can afford it.

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#81. I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story ...

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#82. I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

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#83. Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable ...

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

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#85. There is a statue of limitation.

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#86. Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

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#87. This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

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#88. The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

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#89. Modern dancing is old fashioned.

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#90. Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

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#91. He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

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#92. People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

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