Raymond Allen Liotta (born Raymond Julian Vicimarli, December 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor.
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!
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'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.
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.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films
I never, ever wanted to be an actor.
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.
You want people to watch what you're doing.
If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.
A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.
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
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.
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'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.
There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.
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.
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.