JG

James Garner

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Quotes by James Garner

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I'm an actor; I hire out.
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When I'm pushed, I shove.
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Even my stuntman is old.
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I never finished the ninth grade.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn’t hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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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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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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The only reason I’m an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer’s office.
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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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You don’t need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn’t want to be a politician.
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