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

- William Holden

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

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

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 …

- William Holden

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

- William Holden

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

- William Holden

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

- William Holden

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, …

- William Holden

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

- William Holden