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.

Ray Liotta

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I really believe that you never stop learning. by Ray Liotta

I really believe that you never stop learning.

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I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing. I'm not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it's definitely something that I like doing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, wheth... by Ray Liotta

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

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You're always - you're constantly learning things if you're the type of person who stays open and current.

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I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me by Ray Liotta

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me

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.

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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

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So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies. by Ray Liotta

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

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If I think something's funny, I think it's funny. by Ray Liotta

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

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You want people to watch what you're doing. by Ray Liotta

You want people to watch what you're doing.

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My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being u... by Ray Liotta

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

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I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly jokin... by Ray Liotta

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

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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.

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Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing. by Ray Liotta

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. by Ray Liotta

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

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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!

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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.

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