Great Throughts Treasury

"I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty."

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

"In two words: im-possible."

"Include me out."

"It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities."

"It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre."

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

"Keep a stiff upper chin."

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

"Let's have some new cliches."

"Modern dancing is old fashioned."

"Never make forecasts, especially about the future."

"No agency is better than its account executives."

"Our comedies are not to be laughed at."

"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."

"Please write music like Wagner, only louder."

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

"Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible."

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."

"Television has raised writing to a new low."

"Tell them to stand closer apart."

"That's our strongest weak point."

"That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts."

"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."

"The harder I work the luckier I get."

"The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself."

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

"The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying."

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

"There is a statue of limitation."

"They stayed away in droves."

"This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up."

"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it."

"To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it. -- When told a particular script was too caustic for film."

"Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway."

"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."

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

"We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax."

"We're overpaying him, but he's worth it."

"What we need now is some new, fresh clichés."

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

"Why did you do that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam! -- When a friend told him he named his son Sam."

"Why is everything so dirty here? Goldwyn once asked of a film director. When told it was supposed to be a slum, Goldwyn responded, Well, this slum cost a lot of money. It should look better than an ordinary slum."

"Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?"

"Yes, but keep copies. -- When his secretary asked him if she should destroy files that were over ten years old."

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point. -- When a reporter asked a young Samuel Goldwyn if he'd ever made a picture before."

"You fail to overlook the crucial point."

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour."

"You've got to take the bull between your teeth."