Andy Garcia famous quotes

04-12-2025

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
-- Andy Garcia

#Want #Experiments #Temporary
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
-- Andy Garcia

#Play #Guy #Villain
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#Children #Responsibility #Choices
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#Change #First Impression #Firsts
I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.
-- Andy Garcia

#Individual #Castro
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#Effort #Care #Want
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#Mean #Kids #Community
I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.
-- Andy Garcia

#Want #Shows #Jagger
I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms.
-- Andy Garcia

#Character #Thinking #People
I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.
-- Andy Garcia

#Voice #Interesting #Fans
I wish we didn't have to tell this story.
-- Andy Garcia

#Wish #Stories
It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you.
-- Andy Garcia

#Fire #Light #Pieces
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

#Views #Cuba #Want
It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.
-- Andy Garcia

#Want
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#People #Together #Film
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
-- Andy Garcia

#Long #Naked #Lenses
My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
-- Andy Garcia

#Uncles #Guy #Littles
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

#Play #Way #Jazz
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#Father #Cuba #Saws
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#Daughter #Mother #Children
It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.
-- Andy Garcia

#Integrity #Journey #Sight
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
-- Andy Garcia

#Choices #Certain #Parameters
Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was...
-- Andy Garcia

#Determine
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.
-- Andy Garcia

#Empowering #Desire #Want
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

#Thinking #Important #Want
The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.
-- Andy Garcia

#Hands #Interesting #Decision

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