Top 100 Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
#2. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
#3. 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.
#6. You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.
Samuel Goldwyn
#8. My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.
Samuel Goldwyn
#10. The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.
Samuel Goldwyn
#11. Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
#12. Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn
#16. If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.
Samuel Goldwyn
#17. If you don't dissagree with me, how will I know I'm right?
Samuel Goldwyn
#19. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
#20. There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#21. 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.
#23. I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead
Samuel Goldwyn
#24. Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn
#25. In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.
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#26. Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.
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#28. My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.
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#30. When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.
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#31. I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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#32. Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.
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#33. I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
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#34. Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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#35. Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Samuel Goldwyn
#36. Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.
Samuel Goldwyn
#39. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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#40. Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.
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#41. Pictures are entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel Goldwyn
#42. That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
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#43. 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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#45. 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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#46. This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
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#47. Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.
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#49. 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.
#51. From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn
#52. 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
#54. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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#56. 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.
#57. I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
Samuel Goldwyn
#58. A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.
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#59. I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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#60. No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.
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#61. If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Samuel Goldwyn
#65. I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Samuel Goldwyn
#66. 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.
Samuel Goldwyn
#67. If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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#70. Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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#71. It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers
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#72. Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
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#73. I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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#74. We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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#77. If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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#78. Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
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#79. To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.
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#80. 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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#82. For your information, I would like to ask a question.
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#84. Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands.
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#85. Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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#87. Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.
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#89. Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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#90. I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
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#92. I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.
Samuel Goldwyn
#93. It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
Samuel Goldwyn
#94. 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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#95. I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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#96. 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
#97. I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#98. I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn
#99. 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
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