Ron Perlman Quotes

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

   

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

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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 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’m thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

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

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• Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

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

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• I couldn’t make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.

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• 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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• I actually think it’s harder to play vulnerability, because you’re having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

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

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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 do voicework all the time.

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• Fearless people are interesting to watch.

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Ron Perlman (68)

Birth:	13th April, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Perlman was born in Washington Heights, New York to a Jewish family. His mother, Dorothy, was a municipal employee, and his father was a jazz drummer and repairman. Perlman stated in a 1988 interview that "It was not a bad childhood but...I had a perception of myself that was, I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image."

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