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Date of Birth
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17-August-1879
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Place of Birth
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Warsaw
(Poland, Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw Voivodeship - II RP)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Schmuel Gelbfisz, Mister Malaprop, Samuel Goldfish, Shmuel Gelbfisz, Szmuel Gelbfisz
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Profession
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Businessperson, Film Producer
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Quotes
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- If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
- I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
- 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.
- From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
- I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
- That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
- I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
- I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
- Include me out.
- A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- I read part of it all the way through.
- I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
- God makes stars. I just produce them.
- That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
- A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
- You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
- The harder I work the luckier I get.
- When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
- Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
- Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?
- A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
- I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.
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Samuel Goldwyn, also known as Samuel Goldfish, was an American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.
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