Quotes by Ray Liotta

About Ray Liotta:

Raymond Allen "Ray" Liotta is an American actor, film producer, voice actor. He is known for his portrayals of Henry Hill in the crime-drama Goodfellas (1990) and Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989). He has won an Emmy Award and been nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards.
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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.

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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

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

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

Ray Liotta

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

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 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

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

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

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 ne...

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.

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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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRay Liotta
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornDecember 18, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award