Best 33 quotes of Ray Liotta on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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 really believe that you never stop learning.

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.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

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

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

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

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.

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

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

I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing. I'm not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it's definitely something that I like doing.

Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for a living is a good way to have a release and playing make believe is a good way of getting away from it and doing things like this. So I think work gets me away from life.

Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

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

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

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.

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.

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.

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. But if you can be objective, I can see how it's really useful as a tool, especially if you're doing something physical.

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

With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.

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.

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