Ray Liotta Quotes
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I never, ever wanted to be an actor.
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In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare
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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.
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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
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To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.
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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.
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So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
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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.
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I think people like watching edgy things.
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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.
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You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.
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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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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.
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You want people to watch what you're doing.
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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.
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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
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So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
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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.
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I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.
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I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.
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I think drug movies free the director to make intense films
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You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
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I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.
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The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.
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My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.
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If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.
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Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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