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Quoting the funny Samuel Goldwyn :

“I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.”

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

"Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.”

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

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

“Spare no expense to save money on this one.”

“Let's have some new cliches.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I can give you a definite perhaps”

“God makes stars. I just produce them.”

“Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.”

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

“Don't pay any attention to the critics . . . don't even ignore them.”

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

“Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.”

"I have been laid up with intentional flu."

"Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue."

"There is a statue of limitation."

"Never make forecasts, especially about the future."

"This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up."

"Gentlemen, listen to me slowly."

"Our comedies are not to be laughed at."

"Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory."

“A hospital is no place to be sick.”

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


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

“A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.”

“"I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot."

"Don't improve it into a flop!"

"Tell them to stand closer apart."

“In two words, impossible."

"Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale."

"Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue."

“Gentlemen, include me out.”

“Ill give you a definite maybe.”

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

“If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.”

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

“I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.”

“I was always an independent, even when I had partners.”

“Television has raised writing to a new low.”

“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.”

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

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

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

“I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.