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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. "

Ron Perlman

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" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "

" I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. "

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

" 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. "

" I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. "

" 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. "

" Well, I don't have an agenda. "

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

" Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me. "

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

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Insane

Something

" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "

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

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

" 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 people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight. "

" 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. "

" 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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Cinema

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. "

" 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. "

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

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