James Garner Quotes

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

James Garner

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

  

  Wale
  • Know
  • Like
  • Person

• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • Bull

• I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Idea

• My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Want
  • Car
  • Buildings

• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • School
  • Parents
  • Faith

• I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Good
  • God
  • Live

• Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Kids
  • Me

• My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Family
  • Support
  • Pain

• We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Everything
  • Impossible

• My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Country
  • Father
  • Strong

• And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Life
  • High
  • Quality

• When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Because
  • Selfish
  • Upset

• I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Free

• Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'

  

  Jordan Gavaris
  • Training
  • Talent
  • Microscope

• Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Up
  • Long
  • Country

• OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

  

  Joely Richardson
  • People
  • American
  • Career

• None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Life

• Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Singing
  • Years
  • Tears

• I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

  

  James Garner