95 Quotes by James Caan

Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.

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'.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

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.

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'