James Garner
I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.Collection: Attitude
Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.Collection: Alone
You can never have too many friends.
My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.
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.
I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.
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.
When I'm pushed, I shove.
There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
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 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.
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.
Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.
Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of problems.
I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape.
An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.
I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.
I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.
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.
When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.
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.
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'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.
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.
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
I never finished the ninth grade.
I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.
There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.
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.
I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.
I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.
I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.
I'm an actor; I hire out.
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 legalCollection: Pain
Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacherCollection: Teacher
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.Collection: Running
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.Collection: Best Love
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Letting Go
With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Marijuana
The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.Collection: Challenges
You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.Collection: Needs
We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.Collection: Ocean
I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.Collection: Gum
Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.Collection: Shopping