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Quotes by James Caan

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.
– James Caan
Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
– James Caan
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.
– James Caan
I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
– James Caan
I didn't turn the script down. It was the title. It didn't sound... right. From The Godfather to Elf? My agents told me: We're sending you a script called Elf, and I said: No you're not!
– James Caan
I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.
– James Caan
I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.
– James Caan
I had my first puff on a joint when I was twenty-four and a half, and I was petrified. I thought I was gonna see elephants.
– James Caan
I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.
– James Caan
I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. And one of these days, maybe we'll raise a perfect Caan.
– James Caan
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.
– James Caan
I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.
– James Caan
I'll bump into a guy in a bar, and he'll say, I'm sorry, Sonny! It's surreal.
– James Caan
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.
– James Caan
I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.
– James Caan
I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.
– James Caan
I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.
– James Caan
It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.
– James Caan
It was surprising for a picture called Elf. It was actually edgy. I think the nice thing about the film is that my mother laughed, my kids laughed, my friends laughed, and usually when they call something a family movie, I think, uh-oh! I'll have to suffer through it.
– James Caan
It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.
– James Caan
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
– James Caan
My least favorite phrase in the English language is I don't care.
– James Caan
One day you're playing the boyfriend of Nicole Kidman, the next you're playing her dad. That ain't fun, but whaddya gonna do?
– James Caan
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
– James Caan
People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
– James Caan
Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.
– James Caan
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.
– James Caan
There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
– James Caan
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.
– James Caan
There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.
– James Caan
To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.
– James Caan
What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
– James Caan
When I played three-on-three with twenty-year-olds when I was fifty, I didn't care if the guy was six eight - I threw the elbow.
– James Caan
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!
– James Caan
You have to be very careful when you let someone win.
– James Caan
You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.
– James Caan