Quotes By Samuel Goldwyn

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

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

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

No agency is better than its account executives.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

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.

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

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

Ill give you a definite maybe.

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

I read part of it all the way through.

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

God makes stars. I just produce them.

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

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

Include me out.

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

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

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

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

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.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

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

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

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

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