Caan Quotes & Sayings

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. — 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

I can't sit still for 10 minutes. — Scott Caan

In the end, the work shows if you're good. — Scott Caan

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again. — Scott Caan

I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss. — James Caan

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

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

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer. — Scott Caan

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. — 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

I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid. — James Caan

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper. — Scott Caan

I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad. — James Caan

I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.' — James Caan

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. — James Caan

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was. — Will Ferrell

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it. — Scott Caan

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble. — Scott Caan

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored. — Scott Caan

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies. — Scott 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

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

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with. — James Caan

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

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. — Scott Caan

Men should have rough hands and be strong. — Scott Caan

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

I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good. — Scott Caan

There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you. — Scott Caan

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

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. — Scott Caan

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. — James Caan

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead. — James Caan

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful. — 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

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

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands. — James Caan

Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass. — James Caan

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed. — 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

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

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business. — Scott Caan

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative. — Scott Caan

You have to be very careful when you let someone win. — James Caan

I just love women. — Scott Caan

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting. — James Caan

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs. — Scott Caan

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence. — James Caan

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. — Scott Caan

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen. — 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

I think I'd be a good pimp cuz I'd never beat my ho's. — Scott Caan

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard. — Scott Caan

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts. — Scott Caan

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business. — Scott Caan

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to. — Scott Caan

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn. — Scott Caan

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do. — Scott Caan

I liked being in the spotlight. — Scott Caan

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing. — Scott Caan

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

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. — James Caan

I've got a tough act to follow. — Scott 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

I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career. — Jerry Weintraub

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference. — James Caan

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big. — Scott Caan

I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant. — Scott Caan

Now I can't wait to write my next play. — Scott Caan

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

I was raised right. I dig who I am. — Scott Caan

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father. — Jeanne Tripplehorn

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

Observe the masses and do the opposite — 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 loved 'Funny Lady' for whatever reason. People say they didn't know I could sing and dance. Well, nobody ever asks me - it's always, 'Punch this guy.' — James Caan

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day. — Scott 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 was a scam artist in high school for a while. — Scott Caan

Zain poured skimmed milk over Weetabix, throwing in a handful of cashew nuts to add flavour. A glass of grapefruit juice to go with it, and green tea. He tried to avoid caffeine. Maybe the green pills were loaded with it, anyway. Alligator balls, snake venom and caffeine. He — Alex Caan

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.' — James Caan

I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York. — James Caan

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid. — Scott Caan

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes. — Scott Caan

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. — Scott Caan

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest. — James Caan

I never planned on being a plumber. — Scott Caan

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early. — Scott 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

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair. — Leslie Hope

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot. — Scott Caan

Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think. — Luke Wilson

The most talented people are always the nicest. — James Caan

A woman in Bower Bank, Jamaica, had eight children. The father was in jail in the United States, no longer sending remittances.

Her fourteen-year-old daughter "get burn up from her face, breast, chest, down to her legs with boiling water February 2 1999. That night just because I never have any money earlier to cook, me go town and get a money, buy something to cook cause them never eat from morning. Me daughter bend down, to pick up something near the stove and bounce off the pot of boiling water pan herself. Me tek her to hospital and me never have the money fe register her. Me beg somebody the money and register her. Me owe the hospital $10,500 for the bill, a caan [can't] pay it. She's to go back for treatment because her hand caan stretch out or go up, but the hospital will not see her if I don't pay the bill. — William Easterly

I'm an ultra-conservative. — James Caan

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. — James Caan

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers. — James Caan

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships. — Scott Caan