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" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "
Ron Perlman
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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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" Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. "
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" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "
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" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "
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" I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. "
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" The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. "
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" I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. "
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" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "
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" 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. "
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" I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras. "
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You
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" 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. "
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People
Internet
" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "
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" 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. "
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Through
Been
Better
" I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. "
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You
Because
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" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "
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" In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. "
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" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. "
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Continuing
Culture
Research
" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "
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" I do voicework all the time. "
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Time
" I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. "
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" 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. "
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" You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. "
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" I'm very happy. "
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" 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 then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. "
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" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "
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