James Garner
James Garner
James Garnerwas an American actor, producer, and voice artist. He starred in several television series over more than 5 decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western comedy series Maverick and Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files, and played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including The Great Escapewith Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily, Grand Prix, Blake Edwards' Victor Victoria, Murphy's Romance, for which he received an Academy Award nomination, Space...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth7 April 1928
CityNorman, OK
CountryUnited States of America
It will force our agreement with the county to be written a certain way,
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.
These are the nicest people. From the producers and writers on down. The actors are just wonderful. ...They take care of the old man.
There's not any profitability there, ... Those two stores were probably not going to come back to profitability. In small business, you can't gain that business back.
I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.
I've always wanted to work with Gena because she's such a wonderful actress. She's one of the elite in this business.
You can never have too many friends.
I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.
We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.
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.
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.
In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.
Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.