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Samuel Goldwyn ( GOHLD-win; born Szmuel Gelbfisz; Yiddish: שמואל געלבפֿיש; July 1879 or 1882 – January 31, 1974) was a Polish-born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced the United States's first major motion picture. He was best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios. He was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1973), the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1947), and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1958).

Quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

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

—Samuel Goldwyn

Television has raised writing to a new low.

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

—Samuel Goldwyn

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

—Samuel Goldwyn

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

—Samuel Goldwyn

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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

—Samuel Goldwyn

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

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I read part of it all the way through.

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A hospital is no place to be sick.

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Let's have some new cliches.

—Samuel Goldwyn

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

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I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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

—Samuel Goldwyn

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