American - Activist | April 7, 1928 - July 19, 2014
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
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I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.
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I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.
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When I'm pushed, I shove.
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I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
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I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.
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People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
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Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.
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