Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "
Ron Perlman
Want
Ever
Doing
Related Quotes:
" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "
Ron Perlman
Interesting
People
Watch
" I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. "
Ron Perlman
Me
Think
Opportunity
" I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. "
Ron Perlman
Like
Skill
Born
" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "
Ron Perlman
City
Out
Reach
" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "
Ron Perlman
Insane
Me
Something
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
You
Because
Human
" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "
Ron Perlman
Lot
Control
Like
" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "
Ron Perlman
Corner
Back
Cat
" I live in a bubble. "
Ron Perlman
Bubble
Live
" I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. "
Ron Perlman
I Can
Done
Feel
" The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. "
Ron Perlman
Think
Television
More
" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "
Ron Perlman
I Love
Acting
Well
" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "
Ron Perlman
Very
Been
Blessed
" Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. "
Ron Perlman
Reality
Off
Living
" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "
Ron Perlman
Appearance
Self-Confidence
Things
" 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
Time
You
Reality
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Lost
Character
Fat
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Art
Business
Love
" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "
Ron Perlman
Actor
You
Up
" I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. "
Ron Perlman
Kind
Before
Everything
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Acting
You
Philosophy
" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "
Ron Perlman
Formed
Aesthetic
Dad
" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "
Ron Perlman
Hollywood
Guy
Really
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Saying
People
Internet
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Think
Down
Fight
" I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember. "
Ron Perlman
Tail
I Can
Much
" Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. "
Ron Perlman
Played
Characters
Great
" I'm a city boy. "
Ron Perlman
City
Boy
" I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. "
Ron Perlman
Way
Say
Anything
" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "
Ron Perlman
Breathing
Grass
Side