James Garner Quotes (14 Quotes)


    I've always wanted to work with Gena because she's such a wonderful actress. She's one of the elite in this business.

    I have a tough enough time running my own house -- and my wife does that anyway.

    I'll still watch even though Earnhardt isn't in it.

    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.

    I said, 'Well, I'll give myself five years to see if I can make a living at it.' And after five years I was 30 and I said, 'Yeah, I can go another five years on just the reputation I have now' and then I went another five, and another five, and another five, and finally -- at 50 years old -- I said 'You know, I think I have a career,'


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

    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.

    These are the nicest people. From the producers and writers on down. The actors are just wonderful. ... They take care of the old man.

    It was a couple years after I was in Korea that I started acting. And I really got serious when I was 27 because ... I had a wife and an 8-year-old daughter who had just gotten out of the hospital with polio. And so I took on that responsibility.

    We basically each had our own opinion about what they bid,

    It will force our agreement with the county to be written a certain way,

    In the near term we expect excitement to be driven by cross-border MA and further material restructuring initiatives. Let the MA dance begin.

    I don't like to watch me on the screen. I don't think I'm very good. I just don't have a lot of confidence in me, I guess. I've probably seen about a fourth of the things I've done ... I cringe when I see it. I might be a little picky.

    There's not any profitability there, ... Those two stores were probably not going to come back to profitability. In small business, you can't gain that business back.


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