“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“If I look confused it is because I am thinking.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“A hospital is no place to be sick.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Don’t pay any attention to the critics – don’t even ignore them.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“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
“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“This music won’t do. There’s not enough sarcasm in it.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I never liked you, and I always will.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“It’s more than magnificent – it’s mediocre.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I’m willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Television has raised writing to a new low.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I read part of it all the way through.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we’ll make the picture anyway.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“For your information, I would like to ask a question.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Let’s have some new cliches.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“God makes stars. I just produce them.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Color television! Bah, I won’t believe it until I see it in black and white.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Please write music like Wagner, only louder.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“We’re overpaying him, but he’s worth it.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“If Roosevelt were alive today, he’d turn over in his grave.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Our comedies are not to be laughed at.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“If people don’t want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“No agency is better than its account executives.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“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.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I never put on a pair of shoes until I’ve worn them at least five years.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Spare no expense to save money on this one.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I hate a man who always says ‘yes’ to me. When I say ‘no’ I like a man who also says ‘no.’”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Include me out.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Ill give you a definite maybe.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“It’s absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Modern dancing is old fashioned.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I can give you a definite perhaps.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I was always an independent, even when I had partners.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“Don’t worry about the war. It’s all over but the shooting.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“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.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“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.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“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.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn’t the best place to grow up.”
― Samuel Goldwyn
“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
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