Ron Perlman Quotes

• 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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• I live in a bubble.

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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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• 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 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 don’t have any preferences. I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn’t have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I’ve never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that’s when the work gets to be the most fun.

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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 feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn’t have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I’ve never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that’s when the work gets to be the most fun.

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• I love great animation.

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• I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

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• I’m continuing to do research into biker culture.

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• I’m fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I’ve wired myself for failure.

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• I’m a city boy.

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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 say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

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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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• 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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• I’m kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it’s all over.

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• I’m very happy.

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• I’ve been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

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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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