More - William Goldman Quotes

I just don't want to get there and find out it stinks.

William Goldman

 

I went back to my lounge chair. Alone.

William Goldman

 

What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

William Goldman

 

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

William Goldman

 Giving Meetings

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless -- and absolutely essential.

William Goldman

 

Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.

William Goldman

 Baseball Hollywood

Anyway, here's the "good parts" version. S. Morgenstern wrote it. And my father read it to me. And now I give it to you. What you do with it will be of more than passing interest to us all.

William Goldman

 

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

William Goldman

 American Novelist

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

 American Novelist Death

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

William Goldman

 American Novelist Life