Quotes About James Garner

#1. James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.

Kaley Cuoco

#2. James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.

Kaley Cuoco

#3. After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.

Kaley Cuoco

#4. Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.

Richard Corliss

#5. The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.

Mary Tyler Moore

#6. Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

John Heard

#7. When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

James Garner

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

James Garner

#9. With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

James Garner

#10. Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.

James Finn Garner

#11. I never finished the ninth grade.

James Garner

#12. Alas, if worth be based on beauty,
Snow White has surpassed you, cutie.

James Finn Garner

#13. There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

James Garner

#14. Thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

James Allen

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

James Garner

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

James Garner

#17. 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.

James Garner

#18. But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

James Joyce

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

James Garner

#20. My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

James Garner

#21. Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

James Garner

#22. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

James Garner

#23. The emperor is naked!"
The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted:
"No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!

James Finn Garner

#24. Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

James Garner

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

James Garner

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

James Garner

#27. I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

James Garner

#28. The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

James Garner

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

James Garner

#30. 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.

James Garner

#31. Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

James Garner

#32. When I'm pushed, I shove.

James Garner

#33. I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.

James Garner

#34. He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

James Finn Garner

#35. You can never have too many friends.

James Garner

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

James Garner

#37. 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.

James Garner

#38. I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

James Garner

#39. Even my stuntman is old.

James Garner

#40. Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

James Garner

#41. 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.

James Garner

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

James Garner

#43. 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.

James Garner

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

James Garner

#45. 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

James Garner

#46. An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

James Garner

#47. 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.

James Garner

#48. I'm an actor; I hire out.

James Garner

#49. I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

James Garner

#50. 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.

James Garner

#51. I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

James Garner

#52. While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

James Finn Garner

#53. We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

James Garner

#54. Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

James Allen

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

James Garner

#56. 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.

James Garner

#57. 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.

James Garner

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

James Garner