Ray Liotta Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Guy, Trying

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

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• 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.

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• I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Drug, Directors

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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.

  Ray Liotta

  Teaching, People, Way

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

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• In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

  Ray Liotta

  College

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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.

  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.

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• I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

  Ray Liotta

  Years, Guy, Three

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• 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.

  Ray Liotta

  Independent, Squares, Becoming

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• You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

  Ray Liotta

  Independent, Kind, Bigger

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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.

  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.

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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.

  Ray Liotta

  Directors, Watches, Tools

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

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• I think people like watching edgy things.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, People, Edgy

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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

  Ray Liotta

  Crazy, Blow, Careers

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• So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

  Ray Liotta

  Wife, Form, Partners

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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.

  Ray Liotta

  Interesting, Challenges, Scripts

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

  Ray Liotta

  Girl, Nice, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  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.

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