Andy Garcia Quotes

• You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you’ve got to love him.

  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

• 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.

  Andy Garcia

• My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

  Andy Garcia

• 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.

  Andy Garcia

• 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.

  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

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

  Andy Garcia

• If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

  Andy Garcia

• I’ve had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

  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

• I’m a staunch anti-Castro individual.

  Andy Garcia

• I wish we didn’t have to tell this story.

  Andy Garcia

• I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that’s success enough already.

  Andy Garcia

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

  Andy Garcia

• 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.

  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

• 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

Andy Garcia (18)

Birth:	12th April, 1956
Nationality:	American, Cuban
Profession:	Actor

About

Andrés Arturo García Menéndez professionally known as Andy Garcia  was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez in Havana, Cuba. He  is a Cuban American actor. 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. García was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III.

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