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.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Too caustic? To hell with the cost. If it’s a good picture, we’ll make it anyway.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Acting
If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Happiness
I hate a man who always says “yes” to me. When I say “no” I like a man who also says “no.”
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Hollywood
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Jobs, Truth
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Luck, Work
Include me out.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Unity
Don’t pay any attention to the critics. Don’t even ignore them.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Courage, Attention, Criticism, Critics
You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Pessimism
God makes stars. I just produce them.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Fame, Stars
If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.
—Samuel Goldwyn
The most important thing in acting is honesty. Once you’ve learned to fake that, you’re in.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Acting
I don’t want any yes-men” around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.”
—Samuel Goldwyn
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.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Opportunities, Attitude, Luck, Opportunity
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Television
That’s the kind of ad I like: facts, facts, facts.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Facts, Advertising
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Ideas
Television has raised writing to a new low.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Television
A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Agreement
If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking
If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.
—Samuel Goldwyn
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
—Samuel Goldwyn
I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Loyalty
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
—Samuel Goldwyn
I read part of it all the way through.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Books, Reading
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
—Samuel Goldwyn
That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Ingratitude, Gratitude
I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Legacy, Books, Autobiography
You’ve got to take the bull between your teeth.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Difficulties
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
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