James Garner Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1928 - July 19, 2014

Topics

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Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

Jim Ramstad

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Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

John Carpenter

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Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

Steven Seagal

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I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Tori Amos

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My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

Tom Hollander

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The TekLife crew are super dope.

Mija

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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Derek Walcott

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The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

Chuck Hogan

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My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

Bob Menendez

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'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.

Arfi Lamba

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Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

Antony Beevor

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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Thomas Huxley

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