Ron Perlman Quotes

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Ron Perlman

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 13, 1950

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

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Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.

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In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

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You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

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You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

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Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

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Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

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You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

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I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

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I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

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I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

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I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

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I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

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I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

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I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up.

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I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

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The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

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Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

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I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.

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I'm a city boy.

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