Quotes by Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

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

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.

Don't let your opinion sway your judgment.

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to take 100 percent loyalty.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

That is the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.

The A-bomb is dynamite.

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

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

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.

Include me out.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

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

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering -- anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

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

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

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

Keep a stiff upper chin.

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

Tell them to stand closer apart.

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.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

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

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

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

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

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police -- the GOP.

My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.

Yes, but that's our strongest weak point.

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

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

There is a statue of limitation.

The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

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

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

People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

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

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

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

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

I can give you a definite perhaps.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

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

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

God makes stars. I just produce them.

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

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

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

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

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

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

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

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

I read part of it all the way through.

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

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

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

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.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

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

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

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

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

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

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

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.

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

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

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

A hospital is no place to be sick.

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

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

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

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

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

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

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

Television has raised writing to a new low.

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

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

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

I never liked you, and I always will.

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

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

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

Let's have some new cliches.