Ray Liotta Quotes

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

I think the first thing is to recognize that there is an ebb and flow to your career. There are going to be moments that are really high, and then you're going to have moments where you step away for a little bit, and maybe that's just by choice or maybe you have a family.

In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone's career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it's really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

There are ups and down in one's career.

I think players have ups and downs in their careers.

It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.

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

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Every role that you don't get burns you for a while.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.