Goldwyn Quotes & Sayings

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom. — Samuel Goldwyn

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level. — Tony Goldwyn

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

What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way. — Liz Goldwyn

I can give you a definite perhaps. — Samuel Goldwyn

My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them. — Samuel Goldwyn

Film producer Samuel Goldwyn said, "The harder I work, the luckier I get," and that is absolutely how we all feel about luck, publishing, and life in general. — Sean Platt

A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on. — Samuel Goldwyn

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad. — Samuel Goldwyn

The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.
or Samuel Goldwyn
but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star. — Marion Meade

Tell them to stand closer apart. — Samuel Goldwyn

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them. — Samuel Goldwyn

This business is dog eat dog and nobody is gonna eat me. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP. — Samuel Goldwyn

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

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. — Samuel Goldwyn

If you've got a message, send a telegram. — Samuel Goldwyn

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong. — Samuel Goldwyn

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir. — Samuel Goldwyn

There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile. — Samuel Goldwyn

My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun! — Liz Goldwyn

Let's have some new cliches. — Samuel Goldwyn

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union. — Samuel Goldwyn

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important. — Tony Goldwyn

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking. — Samuel Goldwyn

He treats me like the dirt under my feet. — Samuel Goldwyn

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal. — Liz Goldwyn

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people. — Tony Goldwyn

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. — Samuel Goldwyn

Ill give you a definite maybe. — Samuel Goldwyn

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. — Tony Goldwyn

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

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. — Samuel Goldwyn

I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs. — Samuel Goldwyn

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn ... — Dorothy Parker

Red lipstick has been my beauty staple for years. I show up to Pilates or yoga at 8 A.M. wearing my red lipstick. — Liz Goldwyn

Please write music like Wagner, only louder. — Samuel Goldwyn

I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up. — Samuel Goldwyn

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable ... — Samuel Goldwyn

In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values. — Liz Goldwyn

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it. — Samuel Goldwyn

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens. — Tony Goldwyn

For your information, I would like to ask a question. — Samuel Goldwyn

Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s. — Liz Goldwyn

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be? — Tony Goldwyn

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less. — Samuel Goldwyn

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white. — Samuel Goldwyn

If I look confused it is because I am thinking. — Samuel Goldwyn

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick. — Samuel Goldwyn

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts. — Samuel Goldwyn

I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic. — Tony Goldwyn

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying. — Samuel Goldwyn

You've got to take the sour with the bitter. — Samuel Goldwyn

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf. — Liz Goldwyn

Gentlemen, include me out. — Samuel Goldwyn

Having integrity ... means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right ... what you feel you must do, regardless of the immediate cost of sacrifice ... to be honorable and to behave decently. — Samuel Goldwyn

I never liked you, and I always will. — Samuel Goldwyn

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. — Samuel Goldwyn

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. — Samuel Goldwyn

You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination. — Tony Goldwyn

I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things. — Liz Goldwyn

I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are ... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?' — Liz Goldwyn

Red lipstick is my armour - I feel it distracts from my hereditary dark circles and gives me an instant psychological lift, no matter what my mood is. — Liz Goldwyn

Pictures are entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. — Samuel Goldwyn

I don't just buy a dress because it's pretty - it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on. — Liz Goldwyn

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. — Samuel Goldwyn

I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair! — Liz Goldwyn

I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question. — Tony Goldwyn

God makes stars. I just produce them. — Samuel Goldwyn

We have passed a lot of water since then. — Samuel Goldwyn

You've got to take the bitter with the sour. — Samuel Goldwyn

My parents were self-made people, and they were a team. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it. — Samuel Goldwyn

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in. — Liz Goldwyn

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre. — Samuel Goldwyn

It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout the season. — Tony Goldwyn

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. — Samuel Goldwyn

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. — Samuel Goldwyn

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that. — Tony Goldwyn

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

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

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence. — A. Scott Berg

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to. — Liz Goldwyn

Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races. — Tony Goldwyn

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know. — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. — Samuel Goldwyn

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. — Samuel Goldwyn

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday ... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory. — Liz Goldwyn

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. — Samuel Goldwyn

When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything. — Liz Goldwyn

I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don't believe in fear. I bulldoze right in. — Liz Goldwyn

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence. — Tony Goldwyn

No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life. — Samuel Goldwyn

Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period. — Liz Goldwyn

I was always an independent, even when I had partners. — Samuel Goldwyn