23 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

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'.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

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.

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.

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