Quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never liked you, and I always will.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Include me out.

Let's have some new clich

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

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

In two words: im-possible.

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.

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