Zitat des Tages von Ray Liotta:
So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.
Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.
You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.
I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.
I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.
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.
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
When I found out Cusack was involved, I liked that a lot.
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.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with.
I think people like watching edgy things.
Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.
The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.
The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.