Ron Perlman Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love great animation.

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

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

I do voicework all the time.

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

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

War, war never changes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

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.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

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

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

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

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

I live in a bubble.

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

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.

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

Well, I don't have an agenda.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional.

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

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

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

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