Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

You fail to overlook the crucial point.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

Let's have some new cliches.

Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of the immediate cost of sacrifice...to be honorable and to behave decently.

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

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

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

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

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

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

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

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

If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped up in what he is doing. He has to give his job - whatever it is - not only his talent but every bit of his enthusiasm and devotion.

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

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

Tell them to stand closer apart.

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

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

Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

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

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

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

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

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

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

If you don't dissagree with me, how will I know I'm right?

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

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

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.