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" Well, I don't have an agenda. "
Ron Perlman
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" 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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" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "
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" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "
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" There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. "
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" The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. "
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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. "
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" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "
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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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