The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you’re playing. Ron Perlman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It’s irrational. Ron Perlman Read Quote
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. Ron Perlman Read Quote
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. Ron Perlman Read Quote
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don’t even care about my career anymore. Ron Perlman Read Quote
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. Ron Perlman Read Quote
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. Ron Perlman Read Quote