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" I live in a bubble. "
Ron Perlman
Bubble
Live
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" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "
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Actor
You
Up
" 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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Acting
You
Philosophy
" I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. "
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Wish
Work
Best
" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "
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Deadly
Hit
Season
" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "
Ron Perlman
Want
Ever
Doing
" I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. "
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Way
Say
Anything
" 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 kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. "
Ron Perlman
Kind
Before
Everything
" 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
" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "
Ron Perlman
Breathing
Grass
Side
" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "
Ron Perlman
I Love
Acting
Well
" You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. "
Ron Perlman
Man
Circumstances
Change
" 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
" I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. "
Ron Perlman
Years
Actor
Almost
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Direction
Never
Myself
" 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 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
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Looking Back
Time
Age
" The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. "
Ron Perlman
About
Booth
Cool
" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "
Ron Perlman
Live
Care
Dangerous
" 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
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Doing
Swimming
Team
" 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
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Through
Been
Better
" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "
Ron Perlman
Formed
Aesthetic
Dad
" 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
" 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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Art
Cinema
Like
" Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. "
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Reality
Off
Living
" Well, I don't have an agenda. "
Ron Perlman
Agenda
Well
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Pain
Play
Need