Samuel Goldwyn

“Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.”

“People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.”

“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”

“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.”

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

“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”

“The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.”

“The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.”

“Our comedies are not to be laughed at.”

“Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.”

“The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.”

“I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.”

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

“Modern dancing is old fashioned.”

“Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.”

“My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.”

“We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.”

“I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.”

“A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.”

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