Ron Perlman Quotes

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• I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand…
• I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery.…
• Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.
• It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.
• 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…
• 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've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
• 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…
• I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.
• My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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.
• Every job has a unique situational circumstance.
• Fearless people are interesting to watch.

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