Ray Liotta Quotes

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

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 just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

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

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

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

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.

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

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

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

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.

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.

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

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.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

I think people like watching edgy things.

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

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.

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

The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.

I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.

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

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

You want people to watch what you're doing.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

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

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.

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

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

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