Richard Widmark Quotes (page 2)
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I know I`ve made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence. I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns. (1976)
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Movie audiences fasten on to one aspect of the actor, and then they decide what they want you to be. They think you`re playing yourself. The truth is that the only person who can ever really play himself is a baby.
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[on his giggling psychopathic killer in his debut film "Kiss of Death"] I`d never seen myself on the screen, and when I did, I wanted to shoot myself. That damn laugh of mine! For two years after that picture, you couldn`t get me to smile. I played the pa...
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I suppose I wanted to act in order to have a place in the sun. I`d always lived in small towns, and acting meant having some kind of identity.
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I could choose the director and my fellow actors. I could carry out projects which I liked but the studios didn`t want. The businessmen who run Hollywood today have no self-respect. What interests them is not movies but the bottom line. Look at Dumb & Dum...
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