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
A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.
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
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films
I think people like watching edgy things.
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.
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.
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 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.
If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.
When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
I wanted to go that way and really get proactive with my career - take some control in it and redirect it in a direction that I liked.
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.
You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.