Ray Liotta Quotes & Sayings

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. — Ray Liotta

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing. — Ray Liotta

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor. — Ray Liotta

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it. — Ray Liotta

What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads. — Ray Liotta

I've only been in one fight in my whole life ... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac. — Ray Liotta

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films. — Ray Liotta

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies. — Ray Liotta

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me. — Ray Liotta

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! — Ray Liotta

A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later. — Ray Liotta

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles. — Ray Liotta

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. — Ray Liotta

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!' — Ray Liotta

When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

I think people like watching edgy things. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad. — Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick. — Ray Liotta

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta

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. — Ray Liotta