William Holden Quotes

• 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

  Gratitude, Pain, Blessing

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• 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

  Uplifting, Age, Want

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

  William Holden

  Trying, Twenties, Fifty

  "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• 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

  Fall, Important, Danger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  William Holden

  Death, People, Dying

  "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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

  William Holden

  Acting, Moments, Consuming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hell is paved with good samaritans.

  William Holden

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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

  William Holden

  Art, Hard Work, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Running, Mets, Streets

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• 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

  Animal, Men, Sides

  "Fictional character: Pike Bishop". "The Wild Bunch", www.imdb.com. 1969.

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• 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

  Pain, Home, Kids

  "Fictional character: Max Schumacher". "Network", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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

  William Holden

  Caring, Body, Care

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

  William Holden

  Truth, Reality, Generations

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