Samuel Goldwyn's Quotes

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

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

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

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

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

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

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

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

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

Include me out.

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

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

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

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

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

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

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.

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

I never liked you, and I always will.

Let's have some new cliches.

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

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.

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

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.

For your information, I would like to ask a question.