James Garner

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

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

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

I get to play a killer next.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.