Andy Garcia
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217 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Andy Garcia’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You have it. You do the exploration with your fellow contributors, and you make the movie. And he said, I'm curious to see how it fares. Right. Because I'm curious to see how it fares, because I'm curious how anything fares in human nature, you know, how things are received.
You know, something that's received in a weird way or not completely supportive initially, like Apocalypse Now or something, becomes one of the greatest movies ever made. So movies have a test of time. You know, Francis always said, you have to look at a movie like 25 years after it's made, and that'll tell you what kind of movie it was, you know.
Yeah, there was never, ever an ounce of doubt in her mind that this is where she wanted to be and this is where she was like, ready, let's go. I'm coming. I'm coming with you. Okay, but you know, okay what? Let's go. It was as simple as that. And she's held the fort from day one like that. It's never been an issue with what we need, what we don't need.
We pay the rent and we keep moving forward, keep moving forward. We've been blessed to have four beautiful children that we've been able to provide for. We got two granddaughters and a little grandson on the way. And knock on wood, everybody's been healthy. Everybody pursues their dreams. I have two actresses, a professional model and a professional DJ.
So, you know, it's like, it's like, you know, it's like you find yourself in the same position as your dad when your kids go, I want to pursue. Listen, they were acting since they were like five. So they knew the pitfalls they grew up in. It was a totally different thing, you know. and they know what they're getting into and the struggles it'll be. But I said, this is a life's work.
This is not about if I don't make it in two years. If this is something you love, it's with you for your life, you know. You know, some people get their break when they're 45 years old. But you're still in it all that time. And then all of a sudden, something comes your way all of a sudden. I mean, one of the famous people, I think, and he'll be the first to tell you, is Morgan Freeman.
How his breaks came very late. Well, late, not 60 years old. But, you know, he was a... He was around for a long time before things cracked for him. And, you know, on a popular level, you know, but it doesn't mean people didn't recognize him as a great actor. He was doing stage here and there and then, boom, a movie nominated for an Oscar. Bang, bang, bang.
And and he got into another level in his life. And and he's one of the extraordinary, one of the most extraordinary actors out there, you know. So it's a weird thing. There's never enough work for actors in this business. It's just very low percentage of people work. But what you can do is dedicate yourself to your art, even when you're not getting paid. Have an understanding of it.
Stay in tune with it. Explore. Write. Create your own opportunities if you can. But stay in tune with it. Stay connected with it. And also live life because life feeds your art for them. It's like the whole thing is, well, I'm not getting married because until my career, forget about that, you know. You don't get married because you don't want to get married because you don't know.
That's not, you know, there's no such thing as that. It's what John Lennon said, right? Life is what happens while you're busy making plans, right?
I mean, the first job is always like the first job that you're in a real movie where you're part of a movie like The Meat Season. It was like, okay, we step in it. The light is here now. We're in the light now. But then from there is Jeff Bridges and Hal Ashby. And then it's Sean Connery.
and brian the palmer and then the ridley scott and then eventually i'm sitting in front across the table at the first read-through with al and francis and diane and uh there i am there it is in the light right there that was the movie this is the movie it's right in front of me I'm cracking garlic with Francis in the kitchen, helping him cook.
But yeah, it's kind of like, it's a situation in life where... A lot of things, I guess you would say that a lot of things give you, you have to credit for. I cannot take credit for it. I am a recipient of the blessing of all the examples around me. Parents, work ethic, artistic inspiration, everything that one receives.
that fill you with the momentum or the confidence or the insanity of saying i'm going to step in that direction i'm going to steep sand and doors shut in your face and you leave the audition go that was absolutely terrible i was what was i doing i'm not gonna do that again But then at some point down the line, you're still knocking your head and you're still studying.
And then you have that breakthrough. There's always a breakthrough in the work. When you're concentrating on the work, there's always a breakthrough. And when that breakthrough happens and you go like, and you see everyone in a class. For me, it happened early on in a play, but then it happened to me a lot in class here in LA. But a play in FIU.
where I played a simpleton, sort of like a half-wit, mentally challenged character. And I got lost in him because I grew up We lived in Normandy Isle before we bought our first house on 1581 Normandy Drive, right next to the park in the corner where the pool is. We had a rental house at 1325 Normandy Drive, and we lived our house, and another Cuban family lived in a little guest house.
When I say this is not a big property, it's a small house and an even smaller house, something like a garage in the back, and a family with three boys, and the youngest boy was mentally challenged. Severely. Physically, mentally. And he was a little bit older than me. I probably was 12, 13, 12 years old, 13 years old maybe. 12, 11, 10, 11, around that time.
And I would play with this young man in the backyard, toy soldiers. Every afternoon, he'd come out. He didn't go to school. He was very severely challenged. And we would play. toy soldiers, and I would make him laugh. And he would laugh uncontrollably.
And, you know, it's a very difficult situation because, you know, you're looking at someone who can't even control his physical state because it's all over the place and, you know, drooling. But we were connected for months and months, at least probably there for a couple years. And this was my playmate. And later on, you know, paid tribute to him or I channeled him in this play.
And that's when I realized that that's what, that was the art, that was the craft. That was the art form. So I took that and continue to say, okay, that was one of the breakthroughs. And then later on, here I continued to work. And you know it when you make it have a breakthrough. And it always has to do with a sense of truth in the work.
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