33 Quotes by Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

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

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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