“Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.”

“Every family is dysfunctional.”

“Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share.”

“Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.”

“Freedom is not negotiable.”

“I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.”

“I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.”

“I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.”

“I wish we didn't have to tell this story.”

“If you want to experiment, do something temporary.”

“I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.”

“I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.”

“I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.”

“In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.”

“It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.”

“I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.”

“My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.”

“My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.”

“My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.”

“She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.”

“The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.”

“They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.”

“When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.”

“You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.”

“You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.”

“You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.”