Ron Perlman Quotes

• You know, I don’t read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don’t know what people are saying because… well I guess I’m afraid to.

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

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

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

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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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• Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

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• Well, I don’t have an agenda.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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