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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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" 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

End

Together

Say

" 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

My Life

Change

" I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family. "

" 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. "

" If you want to experiment, do something temporary. "

" 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. "

" I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. "

Andy Garcia

Individual

Staunch

" I wish we didn't have to tell this story. "

" 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. "

" I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down. "

" The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me. "

" Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share. "

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

" You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies. "

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

" 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

Think

Success

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm 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. "