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" I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. "
Ron Perlman
Continuing
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" Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. "
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" 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. "
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Doing
Swimming
Team
" 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
" I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. "
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Way
Say
Anything
" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "
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Unique
Circumstance
Job
" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "
Ron Perlman
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. "
Ron Perlman
Work
Think
Life
" I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest. "
Ron Perlman
Mean
Now
Awareness
" 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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I Can
Done
Feel
" 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 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
" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "
Ron Perlman
I Love
Acting
Well
" 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
" 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
" I live in a bubble. "
Ron Perlman
Bubble
Live
" I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. "
Ron Perlman
Years
Actor
Almost
" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "
Ron Perlman
Very
Been
Blessed
" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "
Ron Perlman
Corner
Back
Cat
" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "
Ron Perlman
Formed
Aesthetic
Dad
" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "
Ron Perlman
Interesting
People
Watch
" 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
" 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
" 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
" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "
Ron Perlman
Insane
Me
Something
" 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
" 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
" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "
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Deadly
Hit
Season
" I do voicework all the time. "
Ron Perlman
Time