Biografía

While on sabbatical from acting he coached a Little League baseball team. There was an incident where his team's weakest player hit a home run that won a game. Caan said that this was one of the greatest moments of his life.

In the 1990s he kicked a cocaine habit of some 20 years.

His film contracts during his rodeo days had provisions that he would not compete during filming.

According to the British documentary The Godfather and the Mob (2006), Caan was regularly seen with Gambino family underboss Carmine Persico (aka "Junior") during the filming of El padrino (1972). As Persico was under surveillance by the FBI at the time, Caan came under almost equal scrutiny.

Spent nine years on the pro rodeo circuit.

[on being voted "Italian of the Year" in New York twice, after his role as Sonny Corleone in El padrino (1972)]: I'm a Jew from the Bronx. I feel guilty about accepting these awards, but they wouldn't let me turn them down.

I have an agent I trust professionally more than anybody else, but with the best intentions he could put me in the shithouse just as fast as somebody who wanted to ruin me.

I'd rather get sloshed than stoned.

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

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