Quotes By Samuel Goldwyn

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

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

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

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

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

I can give you a definite perhaps.

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

I never liked you, and I always will.

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

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

Let's have some new cliches.

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

Television has raised writing to a new low.

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

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

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

No agency is better than its account executives.

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

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

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

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

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

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I read part of it all the way through.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

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

God makes stars. I just produce them.

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

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