William Goldman

How could someone care if she were the most beautiful woman in the world or not. What difference could it have made if you were only the third most beautiful. Or the sixth. ↗

— William Goldman

#beauty

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #luck #education

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic? ↗

— William Goldman

#beauty

Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor. ↗

— William Goldman

#family #funny #miracle-max #s-morgenstern #the-princess-bride

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die. ↗

— William Goldman

#love

aaron would not come out aaron entered into agony. ↗

— William Goldman

#epic #manhattan #stagpole #dreams

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

— William Goldman

#differently #life #pain #selling #something

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. ↗

— William Goldman

#broadway #by the time #failed #fled #had

We are men of action, lies do not become us. ↗

— William Goldman

#become #lies #men #us

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up. ↗

— William Goldman

#crucial #first #followed #job #least