James Garner Quotes
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
Garner, James, and Jon Winokur. The Garner Files: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster, 2011, p. 246.
When the Mexican police and the army started to crack down on the drug cartels for killing each other over drug terrirory, the cartels struck back and started murdering police and soldiers and often civilians as well. At the time ex President Fox made this statement, the Mexican government admitted to 20,000 murders but many observers believed that the number was 50,000.
James Garner was an American actor and producer. He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including popular roles such as Bret Maverick in the 1950s Western series Maverick and as Jim Rockford in the 1970s private detective show, The Rockford Files. He played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964) with Julie Andrews, Grand Prix (1966), Marlowe (1969), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), The Castaway Cowboy (1974), and with Toshiro Mifune, Blake Edwards's Victor/Victoria (1982) with Julie Andrews, and Murphy's Romance (1985) with Sally Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Garner's career and popularity continued through another decade in movies like Space Cowboys (2000) with Clint Eastwood, and The Notebook (2004) with Gena Rowlands. and his TV sitcom role as Jim Egan in 8 Simple Rules (2003-2005).
