Words matter. These are the best Andy Garcia Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Children need parameters, know what’s right or wrong.
I don’t control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
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.
It’s impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.
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.
It’s better not to work than to work in something you don’t want to be working in.
You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you’ve got to love him.
You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.
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.
Every family is dysfunctional.
I wish we didn’t have to tell this story.
You can’t say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.
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.
My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
I’m a staunch anti-Castro individual.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
