Raymond Allen Liotta (born Raymond Julian Vicimarli, December 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor.
My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.
The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.
You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.
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.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money. . . I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels. . . brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!
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.
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.
I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.
To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States.
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.
You want people to watch what you're doing.
I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films
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.
I think people like watching edgy things.
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.