Best 12 quotes of William Holden on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

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.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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