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
My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
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 would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.