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Sam Goldwyn
Sam Goldwyn
- Gentlemen, include me out.resigning from the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, October 1933Michael Freedland The Goldwyn Touch (1986) ch. 10
- That's the way with these directors, they're always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1
- I can answer you in two words, im-possible.much associated with Goldwyn, but apocryphal: ‘It was printed late in 1925 in a humorous magazine and credited to an anonymous Potash or Perlmutter’; Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1
- A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1
- Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?in Observer 9 September 1956
- Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.Norman Zierold Moguls (1969) ch. 3
- Every Tom, Dick and Harry is called Arthur.to Arthur Hornblow, who was planning to name his son ArthurMichael Freedland The Goldwyn Touch (1986)
- when his secretary suggested throwing away out-of-date files:A good idea, only be sure to make a copy of everything before getting rid of it.Michael Freedland The Goldwyn Touch (1986)
- I'll give you a definite maybe.attributed
- Let's have some new clichés.attributed, perhaps apocryphal
- Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.Arthur Marx Goldwyn (1976) ch. 15
- What we need is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.attributed, perhaps apocryphal
