Richard Widmark Quotes

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn’t name an actress I wasn’t crazy about.

Death’s a path we’re all on, son

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.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

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.

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.

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.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn’t wait to go to work in the morning.

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.

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.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.