Talk:Samuel Goldwyn

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 * [A movie] should start with an earthquake and build to a climax.
 * A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
 * A hospital is no place to be sick.
 * A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
 * Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
 * Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
 * Destroy the old files, but make copies first.
 * Don't pay any attention to the critics — don't even ignore them.
 * Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
 * Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
 * Flashbacks are a thing of the past.
 * For your information, just answer me one question!
 * From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
 * Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.
 * Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
 * Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
 * Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
 * God makes stars. I just produce them.
 * He treats me like the dirt under my feet.
 * How come you did what I told you to do, when you know I don't know what I'm talking about. [Original source: Sherman Dreyer, originator/producer of CBS Radio's University of Chicago Round Table, quoting Goldwyn while Dreyer was later producing a syndicated T.V. show titled Communism, R.M.E. ]
 * I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth – even though it costs him his job.
 * 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.
 * I had a great idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
 * I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.
 * I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
 * I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.
 * I want to go where the hand of man has never set foot.
 * I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
 * If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
 * If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
 * If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.
 * I'll give you a definite maybe.
 * It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
 * Keep a stiff upper chin.
 * Let's have some new clichés.
 * Modern dancing is old fashioned.
 * Never make forecasts, especially about the future.
 * Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
 * Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.
 * Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
 * Tell them to put more life into dying.
 * Tell them to stand closer apart.
 * That's our strongest weak point.
 * The A-bomb is dynamite.
 * The harder I work the luckier I get.
 * The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. (On the death of Louis B. Mayer)
 * There is a statue of limitation.
 * They stayed away in droves.
 * They stayed away in droves.
 * What we need now is some new, fresh clichés.
 * When I want your opinion I will give it to you.
 * Why did you name him Sam? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!
 * Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing.
 * You fail to overlook the crucial point.
 * You've got to take the bitter with the sour.


 * What is a reliable source? A book of Literary Quotations for example? Or something else? 195.194.187.132 11:53, 16 September 2013 (UTC)