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" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "
Ron Perlman
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" 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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" 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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People
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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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" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "
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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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City
Out
Reach
" 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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Lost
Character
Fat
" 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
" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "
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Unique
Circumstance
Job
" I do voicework all the time. "
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Time
" 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
" I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. "
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Continuing
Culture
Research
" 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 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. "
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Wish
Work
Best
" 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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Mean
Now
Awareness
" 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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Think
Television
More
" 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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Me
Think
Opportunity
" The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore. "
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Great
Age
Even
" 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
" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "
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Want
Ever
Doing
" 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. "
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Time
You
Reality
" 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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Direction
Never
Myself
" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "
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Breathing
Grass
Side
" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "
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Nice
Pay
Therapy
" 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
" 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. "
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Looking Back
Time
Age
" 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
" There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. "
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Deals
Me
Humanity
" 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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Me
Think
I Can
" 1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing. "
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Other
Money
Nothing