Andy Garcia Quotes

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Andy Garcia

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 12, 1956

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

Andy Garcia

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Andy Garcia

She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

Andy Garcia

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.

Andy Garcia

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Andy Garcia

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Andy Garcia

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.

Andy Garcia

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

Andy Garcia

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.

Andy Garcia

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Andy Garcia

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

Andy Garcia

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.

Andy Garcia

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

Andy Garcia

Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share.

Andy Garcia

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

Andy Garcia

Every family is dysfunctional.

Andy Garcia