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" 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. "

Ron Perlman

Art

Cinema

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Live

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" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "

" 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. "

" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "

Ron Perlman

Lot

Control

" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "

" I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. "

" 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. "

" Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. "

" 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

Think

Opportunity

" 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. "

" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "

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" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "

" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "

" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "

" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "

Ron Perlman

Insane

Something

" 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. "

" 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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Think

I Can

" 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. "

" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "