Ray Liotta

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.

I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.

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 just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.

What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.

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

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

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.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.