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" I'm a city boy. "
Ron Perlman
City
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" 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. "
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" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "
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" There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. "
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" I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember. "
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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'm continuing to do research into biker culture. "
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" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "
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" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "
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" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "
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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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Born
" 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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Work
Best
" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "
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Out
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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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Better
" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "
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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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" 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 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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" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "
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" 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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" You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. "
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