Quotes By Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

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

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

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

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

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

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

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

I never liked you, and I always will.

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

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

Let's have some new cliches.

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

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

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

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

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