William Holden movie quotes

61 quotes from 4 movies

The Wild Bunch (1969) as Pike Bishop

View Quote We're not gonna get rid of anybody. We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be. 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!

View Quote When I get my share of the gold, twenty five hundred dollars worth, I'll tell you where four cases are. The others are waiting for me back at the wagon. If I don't show up pretty quick, they'll blow it...The quicker I get back, the quicker you get the next load...Up the arroyo about two miles, you'll find three cases of rifles and one case of ammunition hidden in the bush.

View Quote I figure that damn General will try to take this load without payin' for it and shoot us in the bargain. Only thing that'll change his mind is if somethin' would happen to these guns.

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Network (1976) as Max Schumacher

View Quote [about Diana] I'm not sure she's capable of any real feelings. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny.

View Quote After living with you for the last six months, I'm turning into one of your scripts. Well, this is not a script, Diana. There's some real, actual life going on here.

View Quote She does have one script in which I kill myself: An adapted for television version of "Anna Karenina", where she's Count Vronsky and I'm Anna.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) as Cmdr. Shears

View Quote Here lies Corporal Herbert Thompson, serial number 01234567, valiant member of the King's own, and Queen's own, or something, who died of beriberi in the year of our Lord 1943. For the greater glory of...[pause] what did he die for?...I don't mock the grave or the man. May he rest in peace. He found little enough of it while he was alive.

View Quote You give me powders, pills, baths, injections, enemas - when all I need is love.

View Quote I can think of a lot of things to call Saito, but reasonable, that's a new one.

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Sunset Boulevard (1950) as Joe Gillis

View Quote Joe Gillis: May I say that you smell really special?
Betty Schaefer: It must be my new shampoo.
Joe Gillis: That's no shampoo. It's more like freshly-laundered linen handkerchiefs, like a brand new automobile.

View Quote Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small. Note: bolded line is ranked #24 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote Joe Gillis: I didn't know you were planning a comeback.
Norma Desmond: I hate that word. It's a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

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