Ray Liotta Quotes


"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Movies, Balance)

"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
"You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Thinking)

"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Movies)

"When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part."
- Ray Liotta
"When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot."
- 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
(Related: Age)

"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Actors, Today)

"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
(Related: Dad)

"Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing."
- Ray Liotta
"I think people like watching edgy things."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: People)

"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
(Related: Ending, First)

"Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Food)

"I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Duty)

"I think drug movies free the director to make intense films."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Movies)

"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
(Related: Business, Balance, Career)

"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
(Related: Career, Company, Production)

"I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Earth, Opera, Years)

"I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Life, Fight)

"I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Movies)

"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: College, Shakespeare)

"As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles."
- Ray Liotta
"My wife read Narc as well and was really into it."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Wife)

"I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad."
- Ray Liotta
(Related: Experience, Want)