Quotes from Ray Liotta

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

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.

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

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

I really believe that you never stop learning.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

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.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.

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.

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

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

I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.