Top 100 Samuel Goldwyn Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

53. “It’s more than magnificent – it’s mediocre.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

54. “If I did that, I’d be sticking my head in a moose.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

55. “When told a script was full of old cliches: Let’s have some new cliches.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

56. “Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

57. “True, I’ve been a long time making up my mind, but now I’m giving you a definite answer. I won’t say yes, and I won’t say no – but I’m giving you a definite maybe.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

58. “I read part of it all the way through.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

59. “I never liked you, and I always will.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

60. “I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

61. “Coffee isn’t my cup of tea.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

62. “I don’t care if it doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

63. “You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

64. “I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police – the GOP.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

65. “Television has raised writing to a new low.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

66. “Don’t improve it into a flop!”

— Samuel Goldwyn

67. “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

68. “That’s the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

69. “This book has too much plot and not enough story.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

70. “If Roosevelt were alive today, he’d turn over in his grave.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

71. “Tell them to stand closer apart.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

72. “That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

73. “God makes stars. I just produce them.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

74. “This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

75. “If people don’t want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

76. “You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

77. “Destroy the old files, but make copies first.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

78. “Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

79. “Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we’ll make the picture anyway.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

80. “Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

81. “You fail to overlook the crucial point.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

82. “Let’s bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

83. “The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering – anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

84. “Please write music like Wagner, only louder.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

85. “The A-bomb is dynamite.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

86. “Chaplin is no business man – all he knows is that he can’t take anything less.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

87. “In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

89. “It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

90. “The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

91. “Modern dancing is old fashioned.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

92. “Our comedies are not to be laughed at.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

93. “I have been laid up with intentional flu.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

94. “I’m living beyond my means, but I can afford it.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

95. “What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

96. “This music won’t do. There’s not enough sarcasm in it.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

99. “Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn’t go.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

100. “To hell with the cost, if it’s a good story, I’ll make it.”

— Samuel Goldwyn