Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I think people like watching edgy things.

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

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.

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

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

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

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

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

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

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

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

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.