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“I really like acting” “My job is to fulfill the script and to use my imagination, so the more you do that the less personal you make it, then the more you get to explore different things” “Suddenly playing the bad guy was my thing” “I just remember it's a game. It's pretend, that it's not real. And that it's not me ” “I have played some intense guys” “It's hard to be mean” “It's even harder to be that edgy kind of crazy guy than it is dealing with loss” “If I've got to be edgy all day or something, I'll let things bother me a little more, you just play little games with yourself to make yourself more vulnerable for that day” “They say that the imagination is more powerful than knowledge” “I think people like watching edgy things” “I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad” “You really want to make sure you're doing it right.” “The hardest thing is learning lines.” “I like the preparation, the imagining part, but the actual sitting and learning lines, there is no way around it. You have to do it, there is no easy method and it is just work.” “I wanted to go that way and really get proactive with my career – take some control in it and redirect it in a direction that I liked” “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” “People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in Goodfellas” “Research is good to a degree, you want to look like you know what you're doing, But your imagination is all you need” “I've always wanted to do a scary type movie. I like watching them and I thought it'd be fun to act in one, and it was” “Taking on Sinatra, that was....very interesting. I didn't know that much about him, I'm not an imitator. You know, to do him without going into caricature was harder. Frank was just so much more raw. I didn't think I look like him, I had to sing the songs, I mean I'm really glad I did it, but it was terrifying for months at first. All I did was listen, read or watch about Sinatra” (Ray talking about playing Frank Sinatra in The Rat Pack, TV film) “It's still about my imagination and the script and playing pretend.” “I totally love acting, it's a great way to make a living. It's fun to play pretend.” “Maybe after 20 years of making movies I'll become an overnight sensation. Maybe I'm due.” “Acting is pretend” “As I get older, I approach it in a different way. As much fun as acting was in the beginning when you are starting out wanting to make your mark, you are uptight and insecure about everything. You really want to make sure you are doing it right. You start trusting yourself more as time goes on.” “I like doing things where the character is a little complicated, and there are different levels of humanity that you're going through” “I've been really lucky, been working with Al Pacino, which was a dream.” “There were a few times after work on Unlawful Entry, where I thought to myself what am I doing? This is too weird, too heavy” “I've been really lucky – Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Anthony Hopkins” “It's just great to make movies, to be in a movie that opens on a weekend, but to be in one that seems like one of those movies that's going to keep on going, you can't ask for anything better than that as an actor because obviously we're doing this so people can see it and we hope that they do” (Ray talking about GoodFellas) “To be in something that has a lasting effect is obviously what it's all about”
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