Ron Perlman Quotes

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

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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 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 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 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 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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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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