GOLDWYNISMS

Polish-born Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974), originally Samuel Goldfisch, was founder of one of the constituents of what became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a solo producer of about seventy films over thirty-five years, including Wuthering Heights (1938), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1946), and Guys and Dolls (1955). Yet perhaps his most enduring legacy is a string of malapropisms that may or may not be apocryphal.

Include me out.

I can tell you in two words: Im Possible.

A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I’ve worn them at least five years.

A man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.

They’re always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.

She’s colossal in a small way.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

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

I read part of it all the way through.

This atom bomb is dynamite.

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is named Sam.