"Animals can sense when you're sincere. People often can't. I've been sincere a lot in my life, and people haven't taken that as sincerity.
-William Holden
I'm a whore, all actors are whores. We sell our bodies to the highest bidder.
-William Holden
There is a fascinating gap between William Holden's often stilted & staccato delivery (especially in something like Picnic, that's based on a play) and then, on the other hand, the completely honest and often transcendent way his body responds to other actors (in Picnic) or to being dwarfed by a landscape (in The Bridges Over Toko-Ri and other war films especially.) In The Lion, he spends the entire film performing in a way in which he seems emotionally paralyzed by the overwhelming Kenyan landscape and also by the way his small, androgynous daughter frolics with a large lion; it's awesome.
