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“Want in one hand and spit in the other and see which weighs the most.”

James Garner as Jim Rockford

Freeze, turkey!

James Garner as Jim Rockford

Lance White: I hate it when anybody dies. Even someone like Blackwood. I’m sure he wasn’t a bad guy at heart probably. Jim Rockford: Oh yeah, you throw out the cocaine busts and what, a little pushing around the high schools and what have you got left? Just a sweet guy with a problem.

Karen Hall: You met up with the Surete; they actually followed me. That’s why I had that horrible feeling I was being watched. And they’re the ones who ransacked my room. Jim Rockford: Oh no, not nearly so simple. Your room was ransacked by an Olympic wrestling champion and a German ex-neurosurgeon. Karen Hall: What? Who are they? Jim Rockford: That’s multiple choice. They’re were either two former members of Wermacht Intelligence, two old friends of your father’s or two cops from East Berlin.

James Garner as Jim Rockford from the Rockford Files.

“Hey, I’m sorry Dad, you just caught me at a bad time. Reading that detective fiction doesn’t help. I mean things aren’t like that you know? They’re not black and white. They’re aren’t any heroes left, they die young. (pointing to a book cover) His gun is deadly? Mine’s in a cookie jar.”

“Does your mother know what you do for a living?”(to hood who just kidnapped him) James Garner as Jim Rockford

Jim Rockford: A senator and a bus driver? What’s the connection? Lance White: This is just a hunch but I’d say the bus driver had something on the senator. Like maybe the senator was having an affair with the bus driver’s wife. Jim Rockford: Lance, where did that come from? Lance White: It didn’t come from anywhere Jim it’s just a hunch. I get a hunch, it turns out to be right and the case is solved. I don’t know how you make a living as a private eye Jim. You don’t seem to know any of this stuff.

James Garner as Jim Rockford and Tom Selleck as Lance White

From the episode that “launched” Tom Selleck’s career.

You don’t mouth off to anything that big. He looks like 190 pounds of gristle.

James Garner as Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files