Richard Widmark Quotes
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.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
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I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
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There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.
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I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.
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Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
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An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
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Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.
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The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
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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.
