Andy Garcia Quotes

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

Andy Garcia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 12, 1956

Topics

LifeChoicesDoingYouMoviesJust

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

Melissa McCarthy

CharacterWritingStartYouTrouble

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

Jeff Greenfield

WomenMenPeopleBlackFighting

It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me.

John Schnatter

BusinessDayMeWeekendWeekLabor

I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.

Sondra Radvanovsky

MotherMeSayOldFirstYears

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.

Jason Mewes

PeopleDoingNervousFirstSameGot

It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.

Denise Mina

SchoolChaosStandHouseLuckyGet

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

Debra Granik

FaceWillAlwaysCommercialSubjects

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

RespectMenEqualityDemocracyFree

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

Antonio Tabucchi

CharacterSomeoneCreatingImportant

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Rex Stout

JoyRareFinesseDetectiveDaring

The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India.

Martha Hunt

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Before going to developmental, I had next to no fundamentals and that was sort of, doing cool chain wrestling and using a lot of holds and stuff.

Kenny Omega

CoolDoingFundamentalsWrestling

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