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James Garner in The Rockford Files (1974)

James Garner: Jim Rockford

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The Rockford Files

James Garner credited as playing...

Jim Rockford

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  • Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
  • Caller: This is Marilyn Reed. I want to talk to... is this a machine? I don't talk to machines!
  • Herb Strock: She's a very strange young lady.
  • Jim Rockford: When somebody has $300,000 in the bank, you don't call them strange.
  • Herb Strock: What do you call 'em?
  • Jim Rockford: Eccentric.
  • Nancy Wade: You don't understand, do you? You don't know how much trouble you're in.
  • Jim Rockford: I have been shot at, hit over the head, robbed of $10,000... Incredible as it may seem, all by myself I figured out I was in a little trouble!
  • Edward Moss: Well how 'bout it?
  • Jim Rockford: How 'bout what?
  • Edward Moss: Are you gonna take it?
  • Jim Rockford: You gonna say "please"?
  • Edward Moss: No!
  • Jim Rockford: Alright, I'll take it.
  • Edward Moss: [At the golf driving range] Whaddya charge?
  • Jim Rockford: $200 a day plus expenses.
  • Edward Moss: Any good?
  • Jim Rockford: That's a little like asking the head waiter how the steak is, isn't it?
  • Edward Moss: Okay Rockford, I'm gonna give you the ground rules. One, I don't like getting fleeced. So you try to run up the expense account, I'm just not gonna pay it. I want receipts for everything, you got it? Everything. I know you guys. You're all expense account hot dogs. I only mention this so you'll know that I'm wise to you going in.
  • [Jabs Rockford with golf iron head]
  • Edward Moss: You get the picture, mister?
  • Edward Moss: [Rockford quickly and easily wrests golf club from Moss and nudges Moss backwards with it] Hey, I got a black belt in karate.
  • Jim Rockford: Good. Cause I got a black belt in 7 iron.
  • Edward Moss: You want this job?

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