James Garner Quotations

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

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

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

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

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

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

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.

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.

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.