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" 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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" 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

" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "

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

" The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore. "

" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "

Ron Perlman

Actor

You

" 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. "

Ron Perlman

Think

I Can

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

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

Ron Perlman

Lot

Control

" 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. "

" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "

" 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. "

" The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. "

" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "

" 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

Skill

Born

" Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. "

" You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. "

" 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. "

" I do voicework all the time. "

Ron Perlman

Time

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing. "

" 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

Started

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

" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "

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

" I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember. "

" I live in a bubble. "

Ron Perlman

Bubble

Live

" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "