Latest Ray Liotta Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Dad, College, Different

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

• I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

  Ray Liotta

  Actors, Wanted

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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

  Ray Liotta

  Currents, Type, Persons

  Source: www.npr.org

• I really believe that you never stop learning.

  Ray Liotta

  Believe, Never Stop Learning

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

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

  Ray Liotta

  Challenges, Sides, Actors

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Actors, Certain, Grows

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

• You want people to watch what you're doing.

  Ray Liotta

  People, Want, Watches

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Laughter, People, Joy

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

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

  Ray Liotta

  Things I Love, Joking Around, Humor Love

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

• If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Ifs

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

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

  Ray Liotta

  Scripts, Needs, Knows

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

• I just know what it's like being an East Coast person, being from New Jersey.

  Ray Liotta

  Jersey, East, Coast

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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

  Ray Liotta

  Scripts, Bigs, Believer

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

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

  Ray Liotta

  President, United States, Gangsters

  "Fictional character: Henry Hill". "Goodfellas", 1990.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Careers, Frustrated, Hot

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

• My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

  Ray Liotta

  Careers, Down And, Up And Down

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 12, 2016.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  New Year, Years, People

  "Wild Hogs - Ray Liotta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Guy, Trying

  "Wild Hogs - Ray Liotta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Writing, Order, Personality

  "Wild Hogs - Ray Liotta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Believe, Thinking, Way

  "Wild Hogs - Ray Liotta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Teaching, People, Way

  "Wild Hogs - Ray Liotta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Guy, Directors, Stories

  "Ray Liotta Talks THE SON OF NO ONE, THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, and COGAN’S TRADE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2011.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  People, Going Out, Wells

  "Ray Liotta Talks THE SON OF NO ONE, THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, and COGAN’S TRADE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2011.

• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Important, Audience

  "Q&A: Ray Liotta on Killing Them Softly, Goodfellas". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. November 28, 2012.

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