Top 35 Richard Widmark Quotes
#1. Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.
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#3. I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.
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#4. Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
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#6. I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.
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#7. Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.
Greg Satell
#8. Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.
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#9. I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
Elvis Presley
#10. I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss of immediacy. Something is missing then, though; that is why I gave that up.
Gerhard Richter
#11. I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.
Trevor Donovan
#12. I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.
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#13. You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
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#14. Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what. ...
Charles Bukowski
#15. There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.
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#16. Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn't, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one's own body.
Daniel Alexander Brackins
#17. When we pull away we're both breathing hard, but I don't think she's thinking about her aunt or her mom anymore. Damn I'm good.
Nyrae Dawn
#18. I can't say I was happy with your mother. I can't say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting.
Joe Hill
#19. Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
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#20. A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
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#21. The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties ... but ... I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.
Ugo Cavallero
#22. Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.
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#23. I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.
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#24. Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
#25. Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.
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#26. I am preprogrammed, acting on impulse, dumping a vast memory into a whirling pool and somehow bringing order to it. Building a complex web. I am the spider. This is my venomous bite. I will make them see their folly.
A.L. Davroe
#27. Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
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#28. Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.
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#29. The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
Gregory David Roberts
#30. Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
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#31. Tess exited YouTube, Binged Richard Widmark, and found what she expected, given
Stephen King
#32. I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
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#34. John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.
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#35. Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.
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