Talk:Samuel Goldwyn

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• [A movie] should start with an earthquake and build to a climax.
• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
• A hospital is no place to be sick.
• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
• Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
• Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
• Destroy the old files, but make copies first.
• Don't pay any attention to the critics — don't even ignore them.
• Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
• Flashbacks are a thing of the past.
• For your information, just answer me one question!
• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
• Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.
• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
• Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
• God makes stars. I just produce them.
• He treats me like the dirt under my feet.
• How come you did what I told you to do, when you know I don't know what I'm talking about. [Original source: Sherman Dreyer, originator/producer of CBS Radio's University of Chicago Round Table, quoting Goldwyn while Dreyer was later producing a syndicated T.V. show titled Communism, R.M.E. ]
• I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth – even though it costs him his job.
• 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 had a great idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
• I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.
• I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
• I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.
• I want to go where the hand of man has never set foot.
• I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
• If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
• If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.
• If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.
• I'll give you a definite maybe.
• It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
• Keep a stiff upper chin.
• Let's have some new clichés.
• Modern dancing is old fashioned.
• Never make forecasts, especially about the future.
• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
• Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.
• Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
• Tell them to put more life into dying.
• Tell them to stand closer apart.
• That's our strongest weak point.
• The A-bomb is dynamite.
• The harder I work the luckier I get.
• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. (On the death of Louis B. Mayer)
• There is a statue of limitation.
• They stayed away in droves.
• They stayed away in droves.
• What we need now is some new, fresh clichés.
• When I want your opinion I will give it to you.
• Why did you name him Sam? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!
• Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing.
• You fail to overlook the crucial point.
• You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

• What is a reliable source? A book of Literary Quotations for example? Or something else? 195.194.187.132 11:53, 16 September 2013 (UTC)