Andy Garcia Quotes - Page 2

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• It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime.

  Andy Garcia

  People, Sorrow, Atrocities

  "Andy Garcia Reacts to Fidel Castro’s Death: I Feel ‘Deep Sorrow’ for All Cuban People ‘That Have Suffered’" by Seth Kelley, variety.com. November 26, 2016.

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• If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

  Andy Garcia

  Giving, Directors, Actors

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

  Andy Garcia

  Choices, Certain, Parameters

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• I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

  Andy Garcia

  Moving, Trying, Want

  "Andy Garcia talks about his epic role in 'For Greater Glory'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. May, 2012.

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• I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.

  Andy Garcia

  Voice, Interesting, Scripts

  "Smokin' Aces - Andy Garcia interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

  Andy Garcia

  Individual, Castro

  "Man of Style - Andy Garcia". "In Style" magazine. Interview with Mark Morrison, www.oocities.org. 1999.

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• I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years.

  Andy Garcia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Martell Cognac approached me to make a film for them that represented the spirit of John Martell and what he stood for as a person and as a visionary - the qualities that they felt were linked to the brand because of John Martell himself. The creation of the cognac had an impact on the world. That's what Martell Cognac would like to promote: people that can inspire other kids and generations. They have a saying: "It's not what you achieve, it's how you achieve it."

  Andy Garcia

  Kids, People, Inspire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain of his boat for 20 years, Gregorio Fuentes, and that inspired me to write a screenplay about it.

  Andy Garcia

  Writing, Men, Inspired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating.

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  Fun, Wish, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The promises of Fidel Castro's so-called revolution of pluralism and democracy, were and continue to be a false promise and a betrayal of all basic human rights.

  Andy Garcia

  Betrayal, Rights, Promise

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• I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their hearts and homes to all, whether in Cuba or in exile.

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  Hard Work, Home, Heart

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Enough Already, Important

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• I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms.

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  Character, Thinking, People

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• It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you.

  Andy Garcia

  Fire, Light, Pieces

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

  Andy Garcia

  Uncles, Guy, Littles

  "Man of Style - Andy Garcia". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.oocities.org. January 1999.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Kids, Community Theatre

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• Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

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  Taken, America, My Family

  "Andy Garcia talks about his epic role in ‘For Greater Glory’". Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• 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.

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  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• 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.

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  People, Together, Film

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• Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was.

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  Determine, Lots Of Money

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• 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.

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  Son, Simple, Recipes

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• 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.

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  Empowering, Desire, Want

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• 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.

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  Change, First Impression, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Effort, Care, Want

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