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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme. |
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Vote: | I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters. |
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Vote: | I live in a house full of women, dolls and conga drums! |
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Vote: | I still have a leather jacket my brother wore in the '60s. It doesn't fit me, but I figure maybe it'll fit my daughter. |
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Vote: | I was a banquet waiter at the Beverly Hilton hotel. You learn a lot when you're in the service industry - the jerks of the world really come to the fore. It's a valuable learning experience to be in the position where you're of service to someone who sometimes doesn't even know you're there. |
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Vote: | I'll be with it as long as it takes. Certainly, in this business you need a tremendous amount of inner fortitude to be in it for any kind of length of time, and I've already been doing this for twenty years. I'm just going to keep on working on the things that reach me, the things that I want to be associated with and identified with, both as an actor and a filmmaker. |
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Vote: | I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. |
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Vote: | I'm attracted to classical things, not fads. I'm sure everybody has a'70s photograph of himself with a velvet lapel and a wide tie. But I like pieces that have age to them. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | If you want to experiment, do something temporary. |
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Vote: | In the '40s and '50s, Havana was the Paris of the Caribbean. Everyone was always well-dressed. |
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Vote: | It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire. |
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Vote: | So for directors, actors, producers, writers-whoever encompasses the creative elements of a film - you have a hit, everyone's happy, and you're the hottest thing in the world. But if the movie doesn't open, then those realities do come into play. |
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Vote: | That's why you end up producing or directing. Because if you don't try to make these stories, you can't expect anyone else to come up with that idea and offer it to you. So you assume certain aspirations and goals, in order to tell certain tales. So you become the producer out of necessity, maybe not out of real desires. |
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Vote: | We didn't bring much out of Cuba. On the way to the airport they searched you and took everything, and then they put you on a plane. |
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Vote: | 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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Andy García (born April 12, 1956) is an American actor.
He was born Andrés Arturo García in Havana, Cuba, into a well-to-do family. He had a partially formed Siamese twin, which appeared as a tennis ball-sized growth on his shoulder. The twin was successfully removed. When Garcia was 5, the invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces failed, and the family had to move to Miami, Florida, where they did various types of work in order to survive. Over a period of several years, however, they built up a million-dollar perfume company. García went to high school in Miami, where he played in the basketball team. During his last year in high school, however, he became seriously ill, which made him decide on acting as a future career.
Garcia began acting at Florida International University, but went soon after to Hollywood. He started to perform in very short roles, and worked as waiter and in a warehouse when he had no job in the film industry. His chance arouse when he was offered a role in the first episode of the popular TV series Hill Street Blues, as a gang member. Director Brian de Palma liked his performance in the 1986 movie 8 Million Ways to Die and engaged him the following year for The Untouchables, which made Garcia a popular Hollywood actor. In 1989, Francis Ford Coppola was casting The Godfather Part III. The character Vincent Corleone, the son of Sonny Corleone, was an exceptional part which many actors wanted. Garcia was not only one of the few actors capable of carrying the part, but he also bore an uncanny resemblance to Robert De Niro, who played the role of young Vito Corleone, Vincent's grandfather, in The Godfather Part II. The role thus went to Garcia, who earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance and became an internationally acclaimed star.
In the following years, Garcia has played in all kind of films, in which he has always left the imprint of his talent. He has appeared also in several TV films. He is, however, a man of principles and chooses his roles according to them, more than for money reasons. He has therefore gained the respect and admiration of directors, producers and colleagues, and the sympathy of the audiences.
Garcia is proud of his Cuban heritage, which is present in his life. He is a very private person. In 1982, he married María Victoria Lorido. The couple have 4 children.
Filmography *Ocean's Twelve (2004)
*Just Like Mona (2003)
*Confidence (2003)
*Ocean's Eleven (2001)
*The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
*The Unsaid (2001)
*Lakeboat (2001)
*Just the Ticket (1999)
*Desperate Measures (1998)
*Hoodlum (1997)
*The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997)
*Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
*Steal Big, Steal Little (1995)
*Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
*When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
*The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
*Jennifer Eight (1992)
*Hero (1992)
*Dead Again (1991)
*The Godfather Part III (1990)
*A Show of Force (1990)
*Internal Affairs (1990)
*Black Rain (1989)
*American Roulette (1988)
*Stand and Deliver (1988)
*The Untouchables (1987)
*8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
*The Mean Season (1985)
*Blue Skies Again (1983)
*A Night in Heaven (1983)
*Guaguasi (1979)
...(more on Wikipedia)
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