Eric Erickson: Suddenly, he becomes your brother.


--William Holden (as ) in The Counterfeit Traitor

Eric Erickson: When other people hate you it's unfortunate. But when you hate yourself, it's unbearable.


--William Holden (as ) in The Counterfeit Traitor

Hal Carter: I gotta get somewhere in this world. I just gotta.


--William Holden (as Hal Carter) in Picnic

Hal Carter: What's the use, Baby? I'm a bum. She saw through me like an x-ray machine. There's no place in the world for a guy like me.


--William Holden (as Hal Carter) in Picnic

Jim Dawkins: I figure that a man's friendship for another man is about as honest as anything that comes along.


--William Holden (as ) in Streets of Laredo

Joe Gillis (as narrator): You don't yell at a sleepwalker. He may fall and break his neck.


--William Holden (as Joe Gillis) in Sunset Boulevard

Joe Gillis: [Joe is reading Norma's script] Sometimes it's interesting to see just how bad bad writing can be. This promised to go the limit.


--William Holden (as Joe Gillis) in Sunset Boulevard

Joe Gillis: [narrating] Come think of it, the whole place seemed to have been stricken with the kind of creeping paralysis... out of beat with the rest of the world... crumbling apart in slow motion. There was a tennis court... or rather the ghost of a tennis court... with faded markings and a sagging net... And of course she had a pool. Who didn't then? Mabel Norman and John Gilbert must swum in it ten thousand midnights ago... It was empty now. Or was it?
[cut to close-up of rats]


--William Holden (as Joe Gillis) in Sunset Boulevard

Joe Gillis: [narrating] How could she breathe in that house full of Norma Desmonds? Around every corner, Norma Desmonds... more Norma Desmonds... and still more Norma Desmonds.


--William Holden (as Joe Gillis) in Sunset Boulevard

Joe Gillis: [narrating] The poor dope - he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool.


--William Holden (as Joe Gillis) in Sunset Boulevard