James Garner Quotes

• I smoked marijuana for 50 yearsIt opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I've concluded that marijuana should be legal

  James Garner

  Pain, Marijuana, Mind

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• Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

  James Garner

  Teacher, Pain, Life Changing

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• There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.

  James Garner

  Running, Country, California

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

  James Garner

  Best Love, Army, Numbers

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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

  Fall, Next Day, Fleeting

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• You can never have too many friends.

  James Garner

  Fashion Shoe, Hello Kitty, Many Friends

  "James Garner: A Lawyer Reflects on the Actor's Legal Legacy (Guest Column)" by Neville Johnson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 23, 2014.

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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

  Heart, Thinking, Cards

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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.

  James Garner

  Running, Differences, Office

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Art, Real, Character

  "The Garner Files: A Memoir".

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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

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Country

  "Fictional character: Lt. Commander Charles Edward Madison". "The Americanization of Emily", 1964.

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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

  Years, Wandering Around, Littles

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• With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

  James Garner

  Children, Oklahoma, Wife

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• I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

  James Garner

  Marijuana, Years, Alcohol

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  James Garner

  Space, Office, Actors

  ""The Garner Files: A Memoir"". Book by James Garner, 2011.

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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

  Common Sense, Acting, Hard

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

  James Garner

  Challenges, Information, Internet Users

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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

  Needs, Actors, Want

  "Famed actor James Garner dies at 86" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2014.

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• I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

  James Garner

  Swimming, Wife, Saws

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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

  People, Want, Film

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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

  Ocean, Moon, Sea

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• I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.

  James Garner

  Gum, Cards, Collections

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• In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

  James Garner

  California, Opinion, Schwarzenegger

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

  James Garner

  Shopping, Wife, Causes

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", June 14, 2004.

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

  James Garner

  Actors, Methodists

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

  James Garner

  President, Qualified, Governors

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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