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'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.