Ron Perlman Quotes

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

I love great animation.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

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

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

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.

I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life.

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

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

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

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.

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

I live in a bubble. 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.

A lot of people have been bent one way or the other on that. I'm not going to weigh in on that; I'm happy to still be at large, I'll just put it that way.

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

I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.

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

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

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

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

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it's as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.

I do voicework all the time.

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

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

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.

I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional.

I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

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.

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

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

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

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