Ron Perlman Quotes

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Ron Perlman

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 13, 1950

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

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The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

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Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

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I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

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Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

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I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

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Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

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There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

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The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

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I love great animation.

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Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.

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I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

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My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

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If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.

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I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

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1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

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