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A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. — Itzhak Perlman

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. — Ron Perlman

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time. — Itzhak Perlman

The most important thing to do is really listen. — Itzhak Perlman

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell. — Ron Perlman

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

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. — Ron Perlman

If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting. — Itzhak Perlman

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled. — Itzhak Perlman

That's the goal, to survive your gift. — Itzhak Perlman

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented. — Ron Perlman

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down. — Ron Perlman

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. — Ron Perlman

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. — Itzhak Perlman

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play. — Itzhak Perlman

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman

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

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. — Itzhak Perlman

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

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages. — Itzhak Perlman

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. — Ron Perlman

I love great animation. — Ron Perlman

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone? — Elliot Perlman

I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. — Ron Perlman

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. — Ron Perlman

The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse. — Elliot Perlman

The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery — Fredy Perlman

I do voicework all the time. — Ron Perlman

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination. — Elliot Perlman

Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. — Ron Perlman

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive. — Ron Perlman

War, war never changes. — Ron Perlman

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. — Ron Perlman

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. — Ron Perlman

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have. — Itzhak Perlman

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. — Ron Perlman

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains. — Itzhak Perlman

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination. — Alfred E. Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. — Itzhak Perlman

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore. — Ron Perlman

I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable. — Ron Perlman

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. — Ron Perlman

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. — Ron Perlman

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did — Elliot Perlman

Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. — Ron Perlman

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music. — Itzhak Perlman

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come. — Itzhak Perlman

Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too. — Rhea Perlman

I listen to kids play a lot. — Itzhak Perlman

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. — Ron Perlman

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. — Ron Perlman

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career. — Elliot Perlman

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other. — Itzhak Perlman

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. — Itzhak Perlman

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. — Ron Perlman

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself. — Itzhak Perlman

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop .. — Itzhak Perlman

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. — Ron Perlman

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema. — Ron Perlman

Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation. — Elliot Perlman

"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one. — Ron Perlman

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. — Ron Perlman

Well, I don't have an agenda. — Ron Perlman

Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. — Ron Perlman

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. — Itzhak Perlman

Trust your ability! — Itzhak Perlman

It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. — Ron Perlman

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least. — Rhea Perlman

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews. — Rhea Perlman

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. — Itzhak Perlman

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. — Itzhak Perlman

What is it about men that make women so lonely? — Elliot Perlman

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. — Itzhak Perlman

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. — Itzhak Perlman

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music. — Itzhak Perlman

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers. — Elliot Perlman

The secret to success is to try to never figure that out. — Rhea Perlman

Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits. — Rhea Perlman

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. — Ron Perlman

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. — Ron Perlman

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember. — Ron Perlman

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. — Ron Perlman

I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. — Ron Perlman

I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional. — Ron Perlman

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. — Ron Perlman

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally. — Elliot Perlman

After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. — Alfred E. Perlman

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point. — Ron Perlman

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. — Ron Perlman

I live in a bubble. — Ron Perlman

We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means. — Rhea Perlman

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. — Ron Perlman

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things. — Itzhak Perlman

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in. — Itzhak Perlman

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality. — Ron Perlman

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. — Elliot Perlman

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. — Ron Perlman

We too often laughed at the same time to be a whore and a lonely guy. — Elliot Perlman

I couldn't only do one thing
I don't want the personal hell of oneness. — Itzhak Perlman

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused — Elliot Perlman