William Holden
William Holden
William Franklin Beedle, Jr., known professionally as William Holden, was an American actor who was one of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s through the 1970s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 for his role in Stalag 17, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his role in the 1973 television film The Blue Knight...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 April 1918
CountryUnited States of America
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For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I'm actually doing it. There is a point beyond acting, a point where living becomes important. When you're making a movie, you get up in the morning and you put on a cloak; you create emotions within yourself, send gastric juices rushing up against the lining of your stomach. It has to be manufactured.
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I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.
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I like to get into a situation that is real, where I can say, 'Here's a chance to react as a human being, not some wound-up doll or robot that goes round and round a track, or a cardboard cut-out like the character I played in 'The Towering Inferno'.
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In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.
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In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
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For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.
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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.
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Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
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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.