Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by William Holden

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor William Holden.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

William Holden was an American actor, one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976). He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times, and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema.

American - Actor | April 17, 1918 - November 12, 1981

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I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

William Holden

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

William Holden

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

William Holden

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

William Holden

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

William Holden

Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

William Holden

In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.

William Holden

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

William Holden

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.

William Holden

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

William Holden

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

William Holden

Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live in a purposeful universe. Life is always for you; it is never against you. It is a fact that blessings sometimes come wrapped in fear, pain, and tears. In choosing to practice unconditional gratitude you are choosing to trust the process, to honor your feelings and to place your faith in an outcome of inevitable grace.

William Holden

I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.

William Holden

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

William Holden