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. 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 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 Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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 Last year we shattered our record.
SAMUEL HOAR JR We operate like a focused United Way. Our goal is charitable ... improving the legal system and acce...
SAMUEL HOAR JR At last came the golden month of the wild folk-- honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the ...
SAMUEL SCOVILLE 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 Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, a...
SAMUEL R. YOUNG JR. The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
JR The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR Art is not meant to change the world.
JR I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR With humour, there is life.
JR When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR What we see changes who we are.
JR I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR 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