Top 30 Ron Perlman Quotes

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.

I love great animation.

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

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you’re playing.

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

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.

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

Well, I don’t have an agenda.

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.

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

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.

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

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

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

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

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

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.

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

I’m kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it’s all over.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

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.

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.

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

I’ve been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I don’t ever want to be comfortable with anything I’m doing.

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.

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.