Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

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

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.

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

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

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

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

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.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable ...

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.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story ...

Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

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

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

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

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

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

Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

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

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

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

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

They stayed away in droves.

No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.

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

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

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

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

Tell them to stand closer apart.

If you've got a message, send a telegram.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I never liked you, and I always will.

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

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

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

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

Destroy the old files, but make copies first.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

Let's have some new cliches.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

God makes stars. I just produce them.

Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

We have passed a lot of water since then.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

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.

Don't improve it into a flop!

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

It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers

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

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

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

In two words, impossible.

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

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

I read part of it all the way through.

Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.

a hospital is no place to be sick

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

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

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

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

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Coffee is not my cup of tea

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.

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