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" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "
Ron Perlman
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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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Live
Care
Dangerous
" Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. "
Ron Perlman
Played
Characters
Great
" 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
" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "
Ron Perlman
Deadly
Hit
Season
" 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
" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "
Ron Perlman
Nice
Pay
Therapy
" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "
Ron Perlman
Very
Been
Blessed
" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "
Ron Perlman
Lot
Control
Like
" 1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing. "
Ron Perlman
Other
Money
Nothing
" I love great animation. "
Ron Perlman
Animation
Great
I Love
" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "
Ron Perlman
Appearance
Self-Confidence
Things
" I live in a bubble. "
Ron Perlman
Bubble
Live
" There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. "
Ron Perlman
Deals
Me
Humanity
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Time
You
Reality
" 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
" 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
" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "
Ron Perlman
Unique
Circumstance
Job
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Think
Down
Fight
" 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
" You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. "
Ron Perlman
Man
Circumstances
Change
" 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. "
Ron Perlman
Wish
Work
Best
" 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
" 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
Like
" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "
Ron Perlman
Breathing
Grass
Side
" 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