Ray Liotta Quotes

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

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 really believe that you never stop learning.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You want people to watch what you're doing.

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