Samuel Goldwyn Witty Quotations

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

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

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

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

I read part of it all the way through.

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

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

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

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

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

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.

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

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

In two words, impossible.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

There is a statue of limitation.

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

Don't improve it into a flop!

Tell them to stand closer apart.

You fail to overlook the crucial point.

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

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

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

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

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

Keep a stiff upper chin.

Gentlemen, include me out.

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

They stayed away in droves.

Let's have some new cliches.