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Samuel Goldwyn [1882-1974] American

Rank: 101
Producer, Film producer

Samuel Goldwyn, also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Jewish Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.

Funny, Movies, Medical, Music, Smile, Success, Work, Chance, Dating, Good, Intelligence, Morning, Positive

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.		101
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.	Good, Positive	102
Ill give you a definite maybe.		103
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.	Funny	104
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.		105
This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.	Music	106
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.		107
The harder I work, the luckier I get.	Work	108
I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.		109
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.		110
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.	Movies	111
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.	Intelligence	112
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.	Dating	113
I never liked you, and I always will.	Funny	114
I read part of it all the way through.	Funny	115
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.	Morning	116
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.	Chance, Smile	117
A hospital is no place to be sick.	Medical	118
Include me out.	Funny	119
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.	Movies, Success	120
Let's have some new cliches.	Funny	121
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.		122
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.		123
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.		124
Spare no expense to save money on this one.		125
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.		126
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.		201
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.	Success	202
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.	Movies	203
I can give you a definite perhaps.		204
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.	Medical	205
Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.		206
For your information, I would like to ask a question.		207
Our comedies are not to be laughed at.		208
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.		209
It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.		210
I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.		211
God makes stars. I just produce them.		212
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.		213
It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.		214
I was always an independent, even when I had partners.		215
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.		216
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.		217
Television has raised writing to a new low.		218
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.		219
The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.		220
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.	Music	221
Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.		222
No agency is better than its account executives.		223
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.		224
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.		225
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'		226
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.		301
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.		302
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.	Work	303
If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.		304
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?	Movies	305
Modern dancing is old fashioned.		306
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.		307
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.		308
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.		309
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.	Smile	310
I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.		311
Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.		312

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