William Holden Quotes

I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

I was always an adrenaline junkie, always competitive, always a speed freak.

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

I like walking on the edge.

My life has been being a daredevil. I am Evel Knievel. I am a daredevil.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.