Ray Liotta Quotes

• I’ve only been in one fight in my whole life… in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I’m a maniac.

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  Tags in Fight, Maniacs

• So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

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  Topics in Movies, Uncategorized

  Tags in Balance

• You don’t do anything thinking that it’s going to stick.

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  Tags in Thinking, Stick

• Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they’re doing.

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  Tags in Actors, Full

• I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

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  Tags in Duty, Raw, Independent

• 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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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Appease, Balance

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Movie, Involved, Peg

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

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Studio

• As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

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  Tags in Proactive, Producing, Roles

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Script, Movie, Character

• 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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  Tags in Funk

• When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Found, Involved

• 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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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Movie, Feel

• When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone’s part.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Read, Wanted, Part

• Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Shape

• In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

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  Tags in Musical, Shakespeare

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opera, Nicest, Guy

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Drug, Intense, Films

• Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Eat, Hungry

• My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

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  Tags in Wife, Read

Ray Liotta (24)

Birth:	18th December, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Raymond Allen "Ray" Liotta is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Henry Hill in the crime-drama Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese and his role as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. He has won an Emmy Award and been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He is also known for starring as the protagonist, Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

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