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" I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma. "

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" An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically. "

" 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. "

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

" The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office. "

" There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target. "

" I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Too many actors have run for office. 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. "

" I don't have any theories about acting, and I don't think about how to do it, except that an actor shouldn't take himself too seriously, and shouldn't try to make acting something it isn't. "

" 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. "

" I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape. "

" People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. "

" It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor. "

" When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get. "

" I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen. "

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

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

" Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of problems. "

" I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing. "

" I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table. "

" 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. "