24 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 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.
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