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Samuel Goldwyn Quotes About Work

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

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

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

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn Quotes About Writing

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

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

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

More Quotes by Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

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

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

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

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

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

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

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

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

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

No agency is better than its account executives.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

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

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

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

God makes stars. I just produce them.

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

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

I read part of it all the way through.

I never liked you, and I always will.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

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