Ron Perlman Quotes

• I’ve had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city.

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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’ve certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

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

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

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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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• 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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• It’s really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.

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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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• Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn’t learn how to be me until I was in my late ’40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

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• So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

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

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• Some of the great characters that I’ve played had to be transformational.

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

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• Season 4 can be deadly for a show that’s been a hit show.

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

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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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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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