Samuel Goldwyn

“I can give you a definite perhaps.”

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

“The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.”

“Include me out.”

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

“Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.”

“I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.”

“All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.”

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

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

“Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.”

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

“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.”

“Television has raised writing to a new low.”

“Please write music like Wagner, only louder.”

“It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.”

“If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.”

“It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.”

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

“Let's have some new cliches.”