Quotes by Andy Garcia

“Its better not to work than to work in something you dont want to be working in.”

“Im a staunch anti-Castro individual.”

“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.”

“So for directors, actors, producers, writers-whoever encompasses the creative elements of a film-you have a hit, everyones happy, and youre the hottest thing in the world. But if the movie doesnt open, then those realities do come into play.”

“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.”

“You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, youve got to love him.”

“We didnt bring much out of Cuba. On the way to the airport they searched you and took everything, and then they put you on a plane.”

“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.”

“Ill be with it as long as it takes. Certainly, in this business you need a tremendous amount of inner fortitude to be in it for any kind of length of time, and Ive already been doing this for twenty years. Im just going to keep on working on the things that reach me, the things that I want to be associated with and identified with, both as an actor and a filmmaker.”

“In the 40s and 50s, Havana was the Paris of the Caribbean. Everyone was always well-dressed.”

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

Im an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

Theres good movies and theres bad movies. The genres are never dead, its 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.

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If Im attracted to something, thats it. If I have reservations, those dont change till theyre resolved. My first impression is how I go.