James Garner's BIO His role as Bret Maverick in Maverick (1957-1962)
April 7, 1928 (Norman, Oklahoma, USA)
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  • I've always wanted to work with Gena because she's such a wonderful actress. She's one of the elite in this business.
  • It's pretty simple math.
  • We feel like they're going to get a good product with AARP.
  • 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.
  • I don't like to watch me on the screen. I don't think I'm very good. I just don't have a lot of confidence in me, I guess. I've probably seen about a fourth of the things I've done ... I cringe when I see it. I might be a little picky.
  • It was a couple years after I was in Korea that I started [acting]. And I really got serious when I was 27 because ... I had a wife and an 8-year-old daughter who had just gotten out of the hospital with polio. And so I took on that responsibility.
  • These are the nicest people. From the producers and writers on down. The actors are just wonderful. ...They take care of the old man.
  • I've always wanted to work with Gena.
  • 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.
  • I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.
  • I'll still watch even though Earnhardt isn't in it.
  • When we go home, we're not off work.
  • We cannot keep that department if it continues to run in the red.
  • God, the Devil and Bob.
  • I have a tough enough time running my own house -- and my wife does that anyway.
  • I called the chief and asked if I need to be concerned about this.
  • We worked very hard to get this for the retirees.
  • At the beginning of the meeting it looked like Scribner Place was dead.
  • In the near term we expect excitement to be driven by cross-border M&A and further material restructuring initiatives. Let the M&A dance begin.
  • The union could put a bid in if they choose to.
  • I'm letting the police deal with that.
  • We basically each had our own opinion about what they bid.
  • It was a marvelous script. ... It's a beautifully framed movie, it's beautifully cast and wonderfully acted.
  • It will force our agreement with the county to be written a certain way.
  • I said, 'Well, I'll give myself five years to see if I can make a living at it.' And after five years I was 30 and I said, 'Yeah, I can go another five years on just the reputation I have now' and then I went another five, and another five, and another five, and finally -- at 50 years old -- I said 'You know, I think I have a career'.