James Caan Quotes

"Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing."

"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."

"You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you."

"It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me."

"Will is extremely funny. The tights, though, they were a little vulgar. I just looked at the tights and there's nothing funny about them!"

"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."

"I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago."

"I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, "Where's your son?" or "My mother loves you."

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."

"How good a Little League coach was I? I was a little hyper. One thing I learned was that talent comes from everywhere; it doesn't have to come just from the ghetto. But in Beverly Hills, because Daddy has a grocery store, the kids lack a lot of try."

"I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships."

"I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work."

"There's a big difference between wanting to work and having to work. And I had to learn that the hard way. Now money is very important to me, because I ain't got it."