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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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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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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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.
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There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
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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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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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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.