Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

Samuel Goldwyn offers practical, no-nonsense thoughts on success, relationships, and business.

68 quotes

1. Include me out.

2. Keep a stiff upper chin.

3. They stayed away in droves.

4. I'll give you a definite maybe.

5. That's our strongest weak point.

6. A hospital is no place to be sick.

7. Flashbacks are a thing of the past.

8. The harder I work the luckier I get.

9. God makes stars. I just produce them.

10. Tell them to put more life into dying.

11. Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

12. What we need now is some new, fresh cliches.

13. If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

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

15. When I want your opinion I will give it to you.

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

17. Never make forecasts, especially about the future.

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

19. It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

20. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

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

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

23. Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

24. Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

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

26. [A movie] should start with an earthquake and build to a climax.

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

28. Why did you name him Sam? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!

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

30. Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!

31. I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

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

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

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

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

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

37. I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth - even though it costs him his job.

38. Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing.

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

40. I never liked you, and I always will.

41. Television has raised writing to a new low.

42. [when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies.

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

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

45. Modern dancing is old fashioned.

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

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

48. Don't improve it into a flop!

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

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

51. I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say o I like a man who also says o.

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

53. It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

54. Spare no expense to save money on this one.

55. Let's have some new cliches.

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

57. I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

58. Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

59. That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

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

61. I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

62. 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.

63. There is a statue of limitation.

64. He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

65. No agency is better than its account executives.

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

67. This book has too much plot and not enough story.

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