"When Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction instruct Anna Sten in diction, then Anna shows, Anything goes!"

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

"Unnamed director: [The script is] too caustic. Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it."

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

"Our comedies are not to be laughed at."

"I can answer you in two words: im-possible!"

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

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

"I read part of it all the way through."

"Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!"