Quotes By Samuel Goldwyn

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

I can give you a definite perhaps.

I never liked you, and I always will.

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

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

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

Let's have some new cliches.

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

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

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

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

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

No agency is better than its account executives.

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."

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

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

Ill give you a definite maybe.

I read part of it all the way through.

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.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

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

Include me out.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

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