Top 100 Goldwyn Quotes
#1. By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
A. Scott Berg
#2. I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
Dorothy Parker
#3. San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.
Vincent Price
#4. In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.
Bob Hope
#5. The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.
or Samuel Goldwyn
but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.
Marion Meade
#6. I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.
Bob Balaban
#7. I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch
#8. Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn ...
Dorothy Parker
#9. Film producer Samuel Goldwyn said, "The harder I work, the luckier I get," and that is absolutely how we all feel about luck, publishing, and life in general.
Sean Platt
#10. I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
Tamora Pierce
#12. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
#13. Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#15. It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season.
Tony Goldwyn
#17. For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.
Liz Goldwyn
#18. You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.
Samuel Goldwyn
#19. I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
Tony Goldwyn
#21. My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.
Samuel Goldwyn
#23. The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.
Samuel Goldwyn
#24. Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
#25. Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn
#26. I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.
Tony Goldwyn
#27. In television, the creator is really the voice.
Tony Goldwyn
#29. Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.
Tony Goldwyn
#32. If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.
Samuel Goldwyn
#33. If you don't dissagree with me, how will I know I'm right?
Samuel Goldwyn
#34. A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday ... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory.
Liz Goldwyn
#36. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
#37. There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#38. Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#40. Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.
Tony Goldwyn
#41. In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.
Liz Goldwyn
#42. I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don't believe in fear. I bulldoze right in.
Liz Goldwyn
#43. I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead
Samuel Goldwyn
#44. Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn
#45. If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.
Liz Goldwyn
#46. My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.
Tony Goldwyn
#47. I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.
Tony Goldwyn
#48. I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.
Tony Goldwyn
#49. The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
Tony Goldwyn
#50. In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.
Samuel Goldwyn
#51. Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.
Samuel Goldwyn
#53. My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.
Samuel Goldwyn
#55. Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.
Liz Goldwyn
#56. When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn
#57. I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things.
Liz Goldwyn
#58. I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another.
Tony Goldwyn
#59. I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
Samuel Goldwyn
#60. I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Tony Goldwyn
#61. Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.
Samuel Goldwyn
#62. I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
Samuel Goldwyn
#63. Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
Samuel Goldwyn
#64. Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Samuel Goldwyn
#65. Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.
Samuel Goldwyn
#68. I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
Tony Goldwyn
#69. I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.
Tony Goldwyn
#70. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
#71. My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!
Liz Goldwyn
#72. Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.
Samuel Goldwyn
#73. I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.
Liz Goldwyn
#74. Pictures are entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn
#75. That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Samuel Goldwyn
#76. The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
#77. I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.
Liz Goldwyn
#79. 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.
Samuel Goldwyn
#80. This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
Samuel Goldwyn
#81. From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women.
Liz Goldwyn
#82. One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
Tony Goldwyn
#83. Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.
Samuel Goldwyn
#85. My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#87. Once you go Kerry Washington, you can't go back
Tony Goldwyn
#88. From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn
#89. I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Samuel Goldwyn
#90. We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.
Tony Goldwyn
#92. In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.
Liz Goldwyn
#93. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
#95. It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#96. Sunscreen is my number one beauty product that goes on even when I am indoors.
Liz Goldwyn
#97. I don't like the sun, but I live in California.
Liz Goldwyn
#98. I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
Samuel Goldwyn
#99. A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
#100. I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
Tony Goldwyn
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