William Goldman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
-
At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
-
Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
-
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
-
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
-
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
-
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
-
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
-
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
-
Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
-
When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
-
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
-
I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
-
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
-
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
-
Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
-
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
-
I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
-
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
-
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
-
The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
-
Hmm, no, because it happens to everybody. [When asked if he would be sad about the dog's death in Marley & Me]
-
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
-
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
