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Quotes by Ron Perlman

I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of performance.
– Ron Perlman
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
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.
– Ron Perlman
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
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.
– Ron Perlman
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
I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.
– Ron Perlman
I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.
– Ron Perlman
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
– Ron Perlman
Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.
– Ron Perlman
You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.
– Ron Perlman
You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
– Ron Perlman
The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.
– Ron Perlman
So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
– Ron Perlman
Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.
– Ron Perlman
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.
– Ron Perlman
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.
– 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.
– Ron Perlman