Richard Widmark movie quotes

11 quotes from 3 movies

Pickup on South Street (1953) as Skip McCoy

View Quote [to Capt. Tiger] You're sittin' on a hot rock. I'd like to see you jump!

View Quote [after first kiss with Candy] Sometimes you look for oil, you hit a gusher.

View Quote 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!

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The Alamo (1960) as Jim Bowie

View Quote I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but he does know the short way to start a war.

View Quote Col. Davy Crockett: Travis says Fannin's coming.
Jim Bowie: Travis says! I wouldn't take Travis' word that night's dark and day's light!

View Quote Bowies' man: What are we doing here. I volunteered to fight, not build no fort. Why are we building a fort?
Col. Bowie: Because Houston told Travis, and Travis told m, and I'm tellin' you.

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) as Col. Tad Lawson

View Quote One thing about Americans: we're not cut out to be occupiers. We're new at it and not very good at it.