Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Liotta
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.
I think people like watching edgy things.
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren't right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.
In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They're like little seven-year old kids when they don't get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.
My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.
The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.
I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.
I feel I've done everything late in life. Got married late, and I didn't do my first movie until I was 31. But in this crazy business, you never know what's going to happen. Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation.
As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.
I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back to see if he got whatever he wanted. I just find it odd to sit there and watch yourself.
Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.
I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.
Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.
I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.
Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with.
My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'
If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.
I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.
My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.
A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.
I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.
I really believe that you never stop learning.
You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.
To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.
I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.
I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.
Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for a living is a good way to have a release and playing make believe is a good way of getting away from it and doing things like this. So I think work gets me away from life.
The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.
I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing. I'm not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it's definitely something that I like doing.
It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.
Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!
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