Author Profile
James Garner
1928 – 2014 • American • Activist
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Showing 36 quotesThere are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.— James Garner
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.— James Garner
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
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
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
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
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
Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.— James Garner