Ron Perlman

Actor

1950-04-13

Ron Perlman is an American actor known for Beauty and the Beast, Hellboy, and Sons of Anarchy. He has worked extensively in film, television, and voice acting.

Quotes by Ron Perlman

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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The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
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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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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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You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
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I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
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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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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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