Quotes by Ray Liotta

• So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
• 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.
• You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.
• You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
• When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
• When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.
• Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.
• Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.
• 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.
• Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
• I think people like watching edgy things.
• 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.
• Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
• I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
• I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
• 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 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've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
• I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
• In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.
• As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.
• My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
• I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.