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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. "
Ron Perlman
Career
Admire
Else
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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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Need
" 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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Fat
" 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. "
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Feel
" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "
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Hollywood
Guy
Really
" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "
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Want
Ever
Doing
" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "
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I Love
Acting
Well
" 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
Human
" 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. "
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Art
Business
Love
" 1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing. "
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Other
Money
Nothing
" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "
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Nice
Pay
Therapy
" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "
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Corner
Back
Cat
" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "
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Deadly
Hit
Season
" 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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Doing
Swimming
Team
" 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'm a city boy. "
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City
Boy
" The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore. "
Ron Perlman
Great
Age
Even
" 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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Me
Think
I Can
" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "
Ron Perlman
Very
Been
Blessed
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Myself
Become
Failure
" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "
Ron Perlman
Unique
Circumstance
Job
" 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
" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "
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Actor
You
Up
" I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. "
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Work
Think
Life
" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "
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Insane
Me
Something
" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "
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Live
Care
Dangerous
" 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'm very happy. "
Ron Perlman
Very
Happy
" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "
Ron Perlman
Formed
Aesthetic
Dad
" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "
Ron Perlman
Breathing
Grass
Side
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
How
Me
Started