Quotes by James Caan

“I had my first puff on a joint when I was twenty-four and a half, and I was petrified. I thought I was gonna see elephants.”

“To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.”

“I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.”

“My least favorite phrase in the English language is I dont care.”

“I dont think silicone makes a girl good or bad.”

“Whats the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently dont know the difference.”

“Showing up every day isnt enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldnt have showed up at all.”

“Ill see a beautiful girl walking up to me and Ill think, Oh, my God, I cant believe my good luck. But then shell say, Wheres your son? or My mother loves you.”

“It was surprising for a picture called Elf. It was actually edgy. I think the nice thing about the film is that my mother laughed, my kids laughed, my friends laughed, and usually when they call something a family movie, I think, uh-oh! Ill have to suffer through it.”

“Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesnt recognize them.”

The most talented people are always the nicest.

Someones always saying Its not whether you win or lose but if you feel that way youre as good as dead.

People say, Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies. I think Ive done two, out of 60.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you dont see somebodys brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

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, Ill 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.