I never liked you, and I always will.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The harder I work the luckier I get.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The m...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN God makes stars. I just produce them.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad telev...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Include me out.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN A Hospital is no place to be sick.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them ...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The harder I work, the luckier I get.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Let's have some new cliches.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those ...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them th...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Television has raised writing to a new low.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Let's have some new cliches.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I read part of it all the way through.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them thei...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN There is a statue of limitation.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue
SAMUEL GOLDWYN It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius p...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Keep a stiff upper chin
SAMUEL GOLDWYN If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them t...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Don't improve it into a flop!
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Gentleman, include me out
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I was always an independent, even when I had partners
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN You fail to overlook the crucial point.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN ("You say you've never made a picture before?") Yes, but that's our strongest weak point
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Why did you do that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam! [When a friend told him he named his so...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN In two words, impossible.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Mr. Goldwyn's secretary was cleaning out his file cabinets on day. She asked Samuel if she could tos...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN His [Joseph M. Schenk's] verbal contract is worth more than the paper it's written on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I can tell you in two words: I'm possible
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Too caustic? To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN For your information, I would like to ask a question.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Never make forecasts, especially about the future
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Well, this slum cost a lot of money. It should look better than an ordinary slum. [When told it was ...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN It rolled off my back like a duck
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I paid too much for it, but its worth it
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN We're overpaying him but he's worth it
SAMUEL GOLDWYN He treats me like the dirt under my feet.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go. [On Mardi Gras]
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see i...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Modern dancing is old fashioned.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Yes, but that's our strongest weak point. [When a reporter asked a young Samuel Goldwyn if he'd ever...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I have been laid up with intentional flu.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN If I look confused it's because I'm thinking
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'll give you a definite maybe.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Gentlemen, for your information, I have a question to ask you
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Quick as a flashlight
SAMUEL GOLDWYN A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on
SAMUEL GOLDWYN A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN They stayed away in droves.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I can give you a definite perhaps
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Don't pay any attention to the critics-don't even ignore them.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Coffee is not my cup of tea
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along bec...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a succes...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have d...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and trem...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR. I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everythi...
LIZ GOLDWYN I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don&#...
LIZ GOLDWYN If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.
LIZ GOLDWYN The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also le...
TONY GOLDWYN In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allow...
LIZ GOLDWYN My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I c...
LIZ GOLDWYN Red lipstick is my armour - I feel it distracts from my hereditary dark circles and gives me an inst...
LIZ GOLDWYN I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural be...
LIZ GOLDWYN A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debau...
LIZ GOLDWYN My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time ...
LIZ GOLDWYN My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bo...
TONY GOLDWYN When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seam...
LIZ GOLDWYN I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing t...
TONY GOLDWYN I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
TONY GOLDWYN I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they a...
LIZ GOLDWYN Anyone who wants to learn about psychiatry from the movies should have their head examined.
SAM GOLDWYN I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also...
LIZ GOLDWYN Red lipstick has been my beauty staple for years. I show up to Pilates or yoga at 8 A.M. wearing my ...
LIZ GOLDWYN We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fas...
TONY GOLDWYN Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I ...
LIZ GOLDWYN Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS