Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Liotta - Page 2

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.

I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me

You want people to watch what you're doing.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

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. But if you can be objective, I can see how it's really useful as a tool, especially if you're doing something physical.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.

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. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.

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

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

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