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Popularity: 0 Vote:	A Hospital is no place to be sick.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Don't pay any attention to the critics-don't even ignore them.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	For your information, I would like to ask a question.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	God makes stars. I just produce them.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I hate a man who always says "yes" to me. When I say "no" I like a man who also says "no."
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I never liked you, and I always will.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
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Popularity: 2 Vote:	I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	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.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Popularity: 5 Vote:	If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Popularity: 5 Vote:	Ill give you a definite maybe.
Popularity: 5 Vote:	Include me out.
Popularity: 7 Vote:	It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	Let's have some new cliches.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	No agency is better than its account executives.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Spare no expense to save money on this one.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Television has raised writing to a new low.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	That is the kind of ad I like. Facts, facts, facts.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
Popularity: 4 Vote:	This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
Popularity: 3 Vote:	We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Popularity: 1 Vote:	When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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Popularity: 1 Vote:	Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Popularity: 2 Vote:	You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Biography

Samuel Goldwyn (August 17, 1882, Warsaw, Poland – January 31, 1974, Los Angeles, California, United States) was a major producer of motion pictures.

Born Schmuel Gelbfisz at age 16 he left his native Warsaw penniless and on foot. He made his way to Birmingham, England, where he remained with relatives for a few years using the English-sounding name, Samuel Goldfish. In 1898, he emigrated to Nova Scotia but, unsuccessful at accumulating money and wanting to try his luck in the United States, he began walking again. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1902. Eventually arriving in New York City, he soon got work in the bustling garment business where his innate marketing skills made him a very successful salesman. At the time, the fledgling film industry was expanding rapidly and in his spare time, an enraptured Samuel Goldfish went to see as many movies as possible. Before long, he went into the business with Vaudeville performer Jesse L. Lasky and Louis B. Mayer, a theater owner formerly from Saint John, New Brunswick. Together, the three produced their first film, using an ambitious young director named Cecil B. DeMille. Disputes arose between the partners and Goldfish left after a few years but their company evolved to later become Paramount Pictures.

In 1916 Samuel Goldfish partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise the Goldwyn Picture Corporation. Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Goldfish then had his surname legally changed to the less comical-sounding Goldwyn. The Goldwyn Company proved moderately successful but it is their "Leo the Lion" trademark for which the organization is most famous. Eventually the company was acquired by Marcus Loew and his Metro Pictures Corporation but by then Samuel Goldfish had already been forced out by his partners and was never a part of the new studio that became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

After his departure, Goldwyn established Samuel Goldwyn Inc., eventually opening Samuel Goldwyn Studios on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood. For 35 years, Goldwyn built a reputation for excellence in filmmaking and an eye for finding the talent for making films. He discovered actor Gary Cooper, used director Billy Wilder for many of his productions and hired writers such as Ben Hecht and Sidney Howard and James Roosevelt. For more than three decades, Goldwyn made numerous successful films and received Best Picture Oscar nominations for Arrowsmith (1931), Dodsworth (1936), Dead End (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), and The Little Foxes (1941). The hallmark of his films was excellence.

In 1946, the year he was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Goldwyn's drama The Best Years of Our Lives, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In the 1950s Samuel Goldwyn turned to making a number of musicals including the 1955 hit Guys and Dolls starring Marlon Brando. Two years later, in 1957, he was awarded The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes.

In his final film made in 1959, Samuel Goldwyn brought together African-American actors Sidney Poitier Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr. and singer Pearl Bailey in a film rendition of the George Gershwin Opera, Porgy and Bess. The film won three Oscars.

Samuel Goldwyn passed away at his home in Los Angeles in 1974. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. In the 1980s, Samuel Goldwyn Studios was sold to Warner Bros.. There is a theater named for him in Beverly Hills and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine Street.

Goldwyn is remembered as a ruthless businessman who lacked formal education and his sometimes crude manners added to an explosive temper that left him with few close friends. He nevertheless was a film genius who believed in quality and who not only survived, but prospered in an extremely competitive business. On the passing of former partner and arch rival Louis B. Mayer, he is quoted as saying: "The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead."

Samuel Goldwyn's lack of English language skills led to many of his malapropisms being frequently quoted such as:
*"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
*"Include me out."
*"What we need now is some new, fresh clichés."
*"Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!"
*"Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg."
*"Flashbacks are a thing of the past."
*"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

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