Quotes by Andy Garcia

About Andy Garcia:

Andrés Arturo García Menéndez is a Cuban-American actor and director. He became known in the late 1980s and 1990s, having appeared in several successful Hollywood films, including The Godfather Part III, The Untouchables, Internal Affairs and When a Man Loves a Woman. More recently, he has starred in Ocean's Eleven and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, and The Lost City.
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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

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

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

Andy Garcia

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

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Andy Garcia

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

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

Andy Garcia

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

Andy Garcia

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.

Andy Garcia

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

Andy Garcia

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

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

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

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Andy Garcia

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

Andy Garcia

Author Bio

  • NameAndy Garcia
  • DescriptionCuban American actor
  • AliasesAndrés Arturo García Menéndez; Andy Garcia
  • BornApril 12, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Cuba
  • ProfessionActor; Composer