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James Garner Inspirational Quotes (14)

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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.
James Garner
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I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.
James Garner
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We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.
James Garner
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You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
James Garner
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I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
James Garner
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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.
James Garner
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I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.
James Garner
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I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.
James Garner
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You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.
James Garner
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I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.
James Garner
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With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.
James Garner
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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.
James Garner
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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 emperor is naked! The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!
James Finn Garner