James Caan famous quotes

03-25-2025

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
-- James Caan

#Names #Careers #People
My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'
-- James Caan

#Phrases #Care #Language
Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.
-- James Caan

#Guy #Showing Up #Enough
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
-- James Caan

#Funny #Divorce #Playboy
I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
-- James Caan

#Couple #Athlete #Golf
My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'
-- James Caan

#Giving #Acting #Technique
It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.
-- James Caan

#Real #Charming
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
-- James Caan

#Baseball #Kids #Rapper
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
-- James Caan

#Height #Matter #Slides
I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!
-- James Caan

#Queens #Growing Up #Believe
I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
-- James Caan

#Cowboy #Cells #People
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
-- James Caan

#Beauty #Party #Guy
I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.
-- James Caan

#College #Two #Acting
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
-- James Caan

#Baseball #Eye #Son
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.
-- James Caan

#Loyalty #New York #Growing Up
I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.
-- James Caan

#Stupid #Bulls
It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.
-- James Caan

#Appreciate #Today #Littles
I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.
-- James Caan

#Dad #Mistake #Son
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
-- James Caan

#Quitting #Fortune #Caught
You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.
-- James Caan

#Eye #Night #Closing Your Eyes
I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.
-- James Caan

#Nice #Boss #Choices

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