Quotes By Ron Perlman

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

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.

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.

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

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

I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city.

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

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

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

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 great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

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

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational.

I'm a city boy.

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.

I don't have any preferences. 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.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

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

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

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

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.

I live in a bubble.

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.

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

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

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.

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.