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Film Quotes by Richard Widmark

66 quotes
Take the High Ground!
Year: 1953

Director:
Richard Brooks
Take the High Ground!
Sgt. Thorne Ryan: This is your rifle, and not your gun; it's made for shooting, and not for fun!
-- Richard Widmark (as Sgt. Thorne Ryan) in Take the High Ground! (1953)
Pickup on South Street
Year: 1953

Director:
Samuel Fuller
Pickup on South Street
Skip McCoy: [after first kiss with Candy] Sometimes you look for oil, you hit a gusher.
-- Richard Widmark (as Skip McCoy) in Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup on South Street
Year: 1953

Director:
Samuel Fuller
Pickup on South Street
Skip McCoy: I know you pinched me three times and got me convicted three times and made me a three time loser. And I know you took an oath to put me away for life. Well you're trying awful hard with all this patriotic eye-wash, but get this: I didn't grift that film and you can't prove I did! And if I said I did, you'd slap that fourth rap across my teeth no matter what promises you made!
-- Richard Widmark (as Skip McCoy) in Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup on South Street
Year: 1953

Director:
Samuel Fuller
Pickup on South Street
Skip McCoy: So you're a Red, who cares? Your money's as good as anybody else's.
-- Richard Widmark (as Skip McCoy) in Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup on South Street
Year: 1953

Director:
Samuel Fuller
Pickup on South Street
Skip McCoy: You boys are talking to the wrong corner. I'm just a guy keeping my hands in my own pockets.
FBI Agent Zara: If you refuse to cooperate you'll be as guilty as the traitors who gave Stalin the A-bomb.
Skip McCoy: Are you waving the flag at *me*?
-- Richard Widmark (as Skip McCoy) in Pickup on South Street (1953)
Saint Joan
Year: 1957

Director:
Otto Preminger
Saint Joan
The Dauphin, Charles VII: [after he is anointed and crowned in Rheims Cathedral] That holy oil Joan talked about is rancid.
Archbishop of Rheims: Your Majesty, that oil is nearly a thousand years old. It was brought by an angel to King Clovis.
The Dauphin, Charles VII: Well, no doubt it was fresher then.
-- Richard Widmark (as The Dauphin, Charles VII) in Saint Joan (1957)
Saint Joan
Year: 1957

Director:
Otto Preminger
Saint Joan
The Dauphin, Charles VII: It's always you good men who do the big mischiefs.
-- Richard Widmark (as The Dauphin, Charles VII) in Saint Joan (1957)
Saint Joan
Year: 1957

Director:
Otto Preminger
Saint Joan
The Dauphin, Charles VII: Now, what's the good of sitting on the throne, when the other fellows are giving all the orders?
-- Richard Widmark (as The Dauphin, Charles VII) in Saint Joan (1957)
Saint Joan
Year: 1957

Director:
Otto Preminger
Saint Joan
The Dauphin, Charles VII: The moment comes when the soldier must give way to the statesman.
-- Richard Widmark (as The Dauphin, Charles VII) in Saint Joan (1957)
Kiss of Death
Year: 1947

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Kiss of Death
Tommy Udo: I wouldn't give you the skin off a grape.
-- Richard Widmark (as Tommy Udo) in Kiss of Death (1947)