Andy Garcia Quotes

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Andy Garcia

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 12, 1956

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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Freedom is not negotiable.

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My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

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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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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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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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When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

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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 make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

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My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

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It's impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.

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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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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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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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I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

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Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

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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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Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

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I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

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