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Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

Andy Garcia

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Andy Garcia
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: April 12
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Actor
Havana
Cuba
Andrés Arturo García Menéndez
Andres Arturo Garcia Menendez
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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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The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.
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I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said.
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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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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
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You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.
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My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
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I wish we didn't have to tell this story.
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A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.
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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.
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Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.
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I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years.
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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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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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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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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.
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The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.
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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.
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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.
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I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.
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