James Garner Quotes

I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

James Garner

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• These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • May
  • Success

• You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

  

  Xenophon
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Play

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friend
  • Look
  • Dating

• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Live
  • Bad

• In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Real
  • Want
  • Cool

• When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Live
  • Lake

• Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Think
  • Night
  • Quality

• Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

  

  LaToya London
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Quiet

• I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Church

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Making Money

• A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Terrible
  • Middle

• What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

  

  Sophocles
  • Death
  • Hopes
  • Cheered

• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

  

  John Milton
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Grace

• I didn't tell anyone I had lupus for many, many years, and I didn't tell anyone I had cancer. I was afraid no one would hire me, and I also felt it was deeply personal. It was nobody's business. Now, of course, my feelings have changed.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Business
  • Cancer

• Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Playing

• I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

  

  James Garner