[first lines]
Philip Marlowe: How do I get in to see the manager?
[the man he's talking to points him in the right direction]
Philip Marlowe: Thank you.


--James Garner (as Philip Marlowe) in Marlowe

[Jake comes in the sheriff's office]
Pa Danby: What's he supposed to be?
Jason McCullough: Well, that's my deputy.
Pa Danby: Why last week he was shovelin' horse... he was workin' in the stable.
Jason McCullough: Well, he's been promoted.


--James Garner (as Jason McCullough) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

[Jason and Prudy are talking about how the Danbys are gathering to come after the sheriff]
Prudy: Have you figured what you're gonna do?
Jason McCullough: More or less.
Prudy: What?
Jason McCullough: Oh, I thought I might just leave town. Just get out of town before they ride in - just ride out and keep on goin'.
Prudy: I don't believe it.
Jason McCullough: Well, I don't know why not. I've never made any secret of the fact that basically I'm on my way to Australia. And I don't think I'm gonna find a better time to get started than right now. Besides, uh, I don't like the odds.


--James Garner (as Jason McCullough) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

[Jason is coaching Jake how to shoot better]
Jake: How come nobody ever heard of you? I mean, a man that can shoot like you do and draw as fast as you can... how come you ain't got a reputation?
Jason McCullough: What would I want with a reputation? That's a good way to get yourself killed.


--James Garner (as Jason McCullough) in Support Your Local Sheriff!

[last lines]
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: And what do you get out of it?
Emily Barham: I'll settle for a Hershey bar.
[kiss]
Petty Officer Enright: Hey Bus, there's - there's a million of 'em there. There's correspondents all over the place. Hi Charlie.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison: All right, fink, how do you want me to play it? Modest and self-effacing?


--James Garner (as Lt. Cmdr. Charles Edward Madison) in The Americanization of Emily

[the mortally wounded Morgan Earp whispers in Wyatt's ear]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday: What did he say?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal: When we were kids, we used to argue about whether when you were dying, your whole life flashed in front of you or not. He said, "It ain't so, Wyatt."


--James Garner (as Wyatt Earp) in Hour of the Gun

[they have discovered that Universal Widgets has no factory, but Molly is still supposed to sell their stock and Henry says he'll help her]
Molly Thatcher: Henry, you're an operator; but do you know anything about the stock market?
Henry Tyroon: Well, I know the stock market is money and emotion. There's hope when you start out, greed on the way up, fear on the way down. I know that, uh, the stock market is people... and if there's anything you can't sell people, I've yet to find out what it is. These people need a reason to buy. The beauty of it is: the reason doesn't have to make sense.
Molly Thatcher: You're not thinking of anything illegal are you?
Henry Tyroon: I'm never illegal. I'm just close to it.


--James Garner (as Henry Tyroon) in The Wheeler Dealers

Beverly Boyer: What ever happened to my rights as a woman?
Dr. Gerald Boyer: I'll tell you what happened to them. They grew and grew until they suffocated my rights as a man. Whoever said all men are created equal didn't anticipate a woman making $100,000 a year and spenidng it on swimming pools!


--James Garner (as Dr. Gerald Boyer) in The Thrill of It All

Beverly Boyer: What ever happened to my rights as a woman?
Dr. Gerald Boyer: I'll tell you what happened to them. They grew and grew until they suffocated my rights as a man. Whoever said all men are created equal didn't anticipate a woman making $100,000 a year and spenidng it on swimming pools!


--James Garner (as Dr. Gerald Boyer) in The Thrill of It All

Dr. Gerald Boyer: How dry I am. How dry I am. How dry I am. Honey... Where are you honey?


--James Garner (as Dr. Gerald Boyer) in The Thrill of It All