James Garner

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72 Quotes

You can never have too many friends.

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape.

I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.

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.

Even my stuntman is old.

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

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.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

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.

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 an actor; I hire out.

Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of problems.

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

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