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What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
I don't have any theories about acting, and I don't think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn't take himself too seriously, and shouldn't try to make acting something it isn't.
We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.
Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself ... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.
Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.
I'm an actor; I hire out.
There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
I never finished the ninth grade.
I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.
I smoked marijuana for 50 yearsIt opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I've concluded that marijuana should be legal
I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.
Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
When I'm pushed, I shove.
I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn't like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don't know where I'd be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I've concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.
When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.
I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.
I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.
The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.
I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.
I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.
I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape.