William Goldman
William Goldman
William Goldmanis an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidand again for All the President's Men, about journalists who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon. Both films starred Robert Redford...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth12 August 1931
CityHighland Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
William Goldman quotes about
Fact: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is, no question, the most popular thing I've ever been connected with. When I die, if the Times gives me an obit, it's going to be because of Butch.
I went back to my lounge chair. Alone.
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.
I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.
The enemy is always in the mind.
Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
I'm not witch. I'm your wife.
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.