Ron Perlman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.”

“I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“I do voicework all the time.”

“I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.”

“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.”