Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta
Raymond Allen "Ray" Liottais an American actor, film producer, and voice actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Henry Hill in the crime-drama Goodfellasand Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams. For his second feature film, Jonathan Demme's Something Wild, Liotta received a Golden Globe nomination and won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since become a highly-regarded screen personality, appearing in leading or supporting roles in films such as Unlawful...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 December 1954
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.
I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
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.
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.
I never, ever wanted to be an actor.
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.
The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.
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.