Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by 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.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
~Samuel Goldwyn
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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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.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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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.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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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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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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A hospital is no place to be sick.
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I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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For your information, I would like to ask a question.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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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.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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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.
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I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
~Samuel Goldwyn
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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Include me out.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
~Samuel Goldwyn
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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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.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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