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Film Quotes by Richard Widmark

66 quotes
Backlash
Year: 1956

Director:
John Sturges
Jim Bonniwell: You know, I've never seen it fail. When you take a trigger-happy bunch sitting it out like this, somebody's bound to start fooling with his gun.
The Alamo
Year: 1960

Director:
John Wayne
Jim Bowie: I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but he does know the short way to start a war.
Backlash
Year: 1956

Director:
John Sturges
Jim Slater: Oh no, not again! You know, a man can get awful tired of bein' shot at.
Backlash
Year: 1956

Director:
John Sturges
Jim Slater: There's things a man has to know and has to do, and it's best that he does them alone.
Johnny Kernan: Once they make you walk up an alley, you never use a front door again.
-- Richard Widmark (as Johnny Kernan) in O. Henry's Full House (1952)
The Way West
Year: 1967

Director:
Andrew V. McLaglen
Lije Evans: You know, for a smart man you ain't got a lick of sense! Not a speck!
Panic in the Streets
Year: 1950

Director:
Elia Kazan
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.: As far as I know, nobody's yet figured out a way to get money back from the U.S. Government... quickly, that is.
-- Richard Widmark (as Lt. Cmdr. Clinton 'Clint' Reed M.D.) in Panic in the Streets (1950)
Death of a Gunfighter
Year: 1969

Director:
Don Siegel*Robert Totten*Alan Smithee
Marshal Frank Patch: Do you want to know something, Dan?
Dan Joslin: What?
Marshal Frank Patch: You're a bad liar. If you want to succeed in this world, you got to learn to be a good liar.
-- Richard Widmark (as Marshal Frank Patch) in Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
How the West Was Won
Year: 1962

Director:
John Ford*Henry Hathaway*George Marshall*Richard Thorpe
Mike King: Why did you bring those bodies here?
Jethro Stuart: They're railroaders. I thought somebody in the railroad might be interested.
Mike King: I'm the railroad and I'm not interested!
-- Richard Widmark (as Mike King) in How the West Was Won (1962)
The Long Ships
Year: 1964

Director:
Jack Cardiff
Rolfe: If we ever had children, my lady, what princely liars they would be!