Top 40 Maverick Quotes

I don’t think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite – I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.

I’ve got a feeling that with the best coppers – and in fact the best people in any field of work – what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

I watched ‘Lagerfeld Confidential,’ which was such an insight into the daily life of a maverick designer.

You don’t have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no ‘us’ and ‘them.’ No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.

I’m in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song.

You know, many people have said that I’m on the edge and I’m maverick for some of the big operations that I’ve done. I’m not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, ‘Should I do it?’, guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

I’m a maverick. I’ve always been a maverick.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe, they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

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.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

Twitter is a form of free speech, and I’m all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can’t get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

Graham’s legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn’t mean I like playing tricks.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

They’ve pursued their own agendas, and they’ve done what they’ve wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They’ve followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

I replaced Jim Garner in ‘Maverick.’ I replaced George Sanders in ‘The Saint.’ I’ve replaced everybody.

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

When people tell me that I must get my maverick gene from my father, they are only half right. My father and I both have inherited our rebellious personalities from Nana. She has always lived her life on her own terms, something that was once considered quite scandalous, given the times she grew up in.

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

If you’re used to being a maverick, then people don’t get surprised when you start acting strangely.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in ‘Top Gun’ and I turned it down.

I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.

There is no ‘Top Gun 2’ in which Maverick is not the starring role.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I’m just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

Some people are just more prepared to take risks than others. I grew up a gambler. That’s my name: Maverick.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don’t know quite what.

When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in ‘The Persuaders,’ I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.

I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, ‘Maverick’ and ‘Have Gun – Will Travel.’ But filmically, classics like ‘High Noon’ and ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ – that’s one of my favorite films.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

The ‘Maverick Chef’ is one concept that I would really want to do again because I am traveling from country to country taking from what is in that country that is iconic, special, funky, weird and doing it my way. That is something I really enjoy.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And ‘maverick’ is fine, because I am.

I’m a maverick.

Famous for his ‘Maverick’ Western series in the 1950s and ‘The Rockford Files’ in the ’70s, and in movies like ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘Grand Prix’ in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.

Red Bull is an energy drinks company operating a team in F1, of course it doesn’t sit particularly well when you are competing against iconic brands like Ferrari and Mercedes. We are happy to be perceived as a bit of a maverick.