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In a 2001 interview on the Today show, Ray Liotta said he was offered an unspecified part on the show, but turned it down to focus on his film career.
"Having done Goodfellas, I mean, that's pretty much the ultimate in mafia everyday life," he elaborated on the reasoning in a 2003 interview with university newspaper The GW Hatchet. "And that show is pretty much structured around Tony Soprano. There was no way I was gonna shine. It just didn't seem like the right thing to do."
And while he said he loved Gandolfini, Liotta admitted, "But my ego's as big as anybody's."