Ray Liotta Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I think people like watching edgy things.

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

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

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

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

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.