Ray Liotta Quotes (33 Quotes)

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

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

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

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.

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

I mean, I understand that, I guess, it brings people to the movie, but I hope that I get really, really huge so that I don't have to do this anymore.

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

Some movies you go to and you spend a lot of money between popcorn, parking, or the movie itself, and I really feel that this is worth its money.

I'm getting older, I wanted to have that opportunity to play someone who goes from his twenties to someone dying of cancer in his sixties.

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

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

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

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

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

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

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.

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

I've never stolen, I never did anything.

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

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.

No question. There's shades of the O.J. trial in this one. The difference in our movie is my guy is completely committed and does everything he can to find out who the bad guy is,

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.

I think people like watching edgy things.

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.

Amanda Plummer was honored as outstanding guest actress in a drama for her appearance on Law Order Special Victims Unit, ... ER.

He was great. Just a goof ball. I mean that in the best sense of the word. He's just a fun guy, but we had a blast.

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

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

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

I wanted to go that way and really get proactive with my career - take some control in it and redirect it in a direction that I liked.

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.