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" Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. "
Ron Perlman
Reality
Off
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" 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. "
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" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "
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" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "
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" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "
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" Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "
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Actor
You
Up
" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "
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Acting
Well
" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "
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Lot
Control
Like
" 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 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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Think
Down
Fight
" 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. "
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Work
Think
Life
" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "
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Hollywood
Guy
Really
" I do voicework all the time. "
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Time
" 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
" 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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Career
Admire
Else
" I'm a city boy. "
Ron Perlman
City
Boy
" 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
" 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. "
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How
Me
Started
" 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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Television
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" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "
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Unique
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Job
" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "
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Been
Blessed
" I love great animation. "
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Animation
Great
I Love
" 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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Art
Business
Love
" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "
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Formed
Aesthetic
Dad
" I'm very happy. "
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Very
Happy
" There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. "
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Deals
Me
Humanity
" I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. "
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Kind
Before
Everything