The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
A hospital is no place to be sick.
I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Include me out.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Let's have some new cliches.
A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
I never liked you, and I always will.
Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
I read part of it all the way through.
If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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.
Ill give you a definite maybe.
For your information, I would like to ask a question.
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Modern dancing is old fashioned.
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
Spare no expense to save money on this one.
Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
God makes stars. I just produce them.
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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.
If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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.
No agency is better than its account executives.
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
