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" Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick. "
Ron Perlman
I Love
Acting
Well
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "
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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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" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "
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" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "
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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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" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "
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" I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. "
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Say
Anything
" 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. "
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Cinema
Like
" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "
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Live
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Dangerous
" I love great animation. "
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Animation
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I Love
" 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. "
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Myself
Become
Failure
" Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. "
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Off
Living
" 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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Swimming
Team
" I live in a bubble. "
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Live
" I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times. "
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Through
Been
Better
" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "
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Breathing
Grass
Side
" 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. "
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" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "
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" 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. "
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Internet
" 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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Appearance
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