Andy Garcia Quotes
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I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
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You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
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When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.
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I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.
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My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.
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There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.
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Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.
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I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.
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I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.
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I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
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I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.
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You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.
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My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.
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I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
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Freedom is not negotiable.
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I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.
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Every family is dysfunctional.
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When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.
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I wish we didn't have to tell this story.
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I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
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If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
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Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.
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The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.