Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Richard Farnsworth.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He is best known for his performances in Comes a Horseman (1978), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor; The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama; Anne of Green Gables (1985); Misery (1990); and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
I was a stunt man for 35 years.
But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.
David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.
I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.
No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.