James Garner Quotes

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.

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• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Me
  • Best
  • Speak

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Game
  • Reality

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Parents

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Player
  • Name
  • Makes

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Professional
  • Manager
  • Farm

• I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Children
  • Home
  • Day

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Attitude

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Know
  • Now
  • Where

• I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Weird
  • Kid
  • Roles

• My father came from Cuba, but he married a nice Jewish girl in Miami, and I followed suit and married a nice Jewish girl in Miami as well.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Nice

• If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Wife
  • End

• I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Why

• My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

  

  John Allison
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Style

• At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • World
  • House
  • Violence

• 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
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  • Movie
  • Violence