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SAM GOLDWYN: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL OBSERVATIONS
Sam Goldwyn reputedly told Albert Einstein, “Professor, you have your theory of relativity and I have mine: never hire ‘em.”
Goldwyn, born Samuel Gelbfisz in Poland in 1882, emigrated to America and changed his name to Sam Goldfish and then to Sam Goldwyn. Good thing, or MGM would have been Metro-Goldfish-Mayer.
Goldwyn became almost as famous for his oxymoronic English as for his studio’s films. Here are a few of Goldwyn’s lessons on show business and life.
Classics
- A hospital is no place to be sick.
- A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Gentlemen, include me out.
- I’ll give you a definite maybe.
- Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.