Ron Perlman Quotes

• 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 love great animation.

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

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• I do voicework all the time.

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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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• 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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• Fearless people are interesting to watch.

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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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• Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

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

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

   

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

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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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