Words matter. These are the best Ray Liotta Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 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.
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.
In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
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.
Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
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.
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.
I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think people like watching edgy things.
I’ve only been in one fight in my whole life… in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I’m a maniac.
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.
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.
My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
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.
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.
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.
