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“William Holden had his own approach. "Take any picture you can. One out of four will be good, one out of ten will be very good and one out of fifteen will get you an Oscar.”
― Edward Z. Epstein, Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden

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― Edward Z. Epstein, Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden

“Here lies a very successful man, who spontaneously gave up his profession to devote himself to endangered species. He did not take much care of himself so he killed himself. However, what he neglected to consider was that he himself was an endangered species as well: The Handsome American. (Wilder)”
― Edward Z. Epstein, Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden

“Personally, I can do very little, but I can contribute to a whole chain of events, and that's a marvelous feeling. It's like a bonus to me towards the end of my life. It gives me a voice." (Audrey Hepburn)”
― Edward Z. Epstein, Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden

“intriguing, not standard Hollywood stuff. He was not a street kid who’d had to claw his way to respectability. His reasonably well-to-do family’s roots traced back to George Washington’s mother, and he was always proud of the fact that he was distantly related to “one of the founders of our country.” Bill was Irish-English-German, “mixed in an American shaker,” as he liked to say. His maternal grandfather was a cousin of Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth president of the United States. Bill had been born William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O’Fallon, Illinois, on April 17, 1918. When he was three, the family moved to Pasadena, California. His father, William, was an industrial chemist; his mother, Mary, a teacher. He had two younger brothers, Robert (Bob) Westfield Beedle, and Richard (Dick Porter) Beedle.”
― Edward Z. Epstein, Audrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William Holden