Quotes by Ron Perlman - Page 2

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Blogs
Internet People Know
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A lot of people have been bent one way or the other on that. I'm not going to weigh in on that; I'm happy to still be at large, I'll just put it that way.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Bent
People
Way
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I live in a bubble. I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because, well I guess I'm afraid to.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Goes On
Internet
People
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I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Deeper
Harder
Portions
Vulnerability
Psyche
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Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Roles
Bloomer
Closer
Late Bloomer
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I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Action
Wanted
Way
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I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Interesting
Larger Than Life
People
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The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Culture
Interesting
Opposites
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As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Actors
Alternatives
Want
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I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Benefits
Fun
Giving
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That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Digital
Punctuation Marks
Replacements
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I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. 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 / Voice Actor
Cancer
Heart
School
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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.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Handle
Humanity
Not Interested
Roles
Stink
Thinking
Me Will Know
Joint
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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.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Cinema
Independent
Tarantino
Introduced
Quentin Tarantino
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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 / Voice Actor
Blood
Blood Pressure
Character
Normal
Pounds
Pressure
Salt
Transition
Fat
Character Actor
Disappeared
Thin
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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.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Gears
Humanity
Luck
Machinery
Wheels
Best Work Business
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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 / Voice Actor
Art
Cost
Independent
Independent Film
Nonexistent
To Love
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I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Acting
Style
Suits
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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.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Advantage
Awareness
Mean
Phenomenal
Taking Advantage
Trying
Total
Fullest
Make Up
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I, for one, am not nearly as engaged when I'm looking at something that's been completely drawn up on a computer that replaces anything that's in real time and real space. It just engages me all the less, rather than all the more.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Space
Computer
Real
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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 / Voice Actor
Fighting
People
Resolve
Thinking
Fight People Will
Eighth
Round
Ninth
Strengthened
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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 / Voice Actor
Degrees
Camera
Depicting
Everything Else
Premise
Settle
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I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Church
Religious
Spiritual
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Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Looks
People
Tvs
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I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Believe
Thinking
Years
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I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Opportunity
Circles
Night
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None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Differences
Doe
People
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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 / Voice Actor
Birthday
Smile
Age
Events
Looking Back
Looks
Pants
Unexpected
Life Time Age
Almost All
Seat
Crashing
Event
Finally
Led
Pattern
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The approach to acting is always the same, you try to figure who the guy is and then you try to transition your way into his way of thinking and moving through the world. The rest of it is just accoutrements, you don't play the makeup, you play the guy. If you're not wearing makeup, you just play the guy.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Makeup
Moving
Thinking
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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.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Criteria
Engaged
Profile
Work Fun Feel
Challenged
Fully
Therefore
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Guys who are larger than life and theatrical and deliciously unpredictable - they're far more interesting than the good guys most of the time. They have these psychological layers that an audience can really cling on to, become fascinated with, much more so than these true-blue, one-dimensional, square-jawed good guys.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Blue
Interesting
Squares
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I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Chance
Autumn
Careers
Comfortable
Fitting
Mask
Overview
Things Happen
Thinking
Life Work Chance
Why
Skin
Career
Early
Getting
Happen
Having
My Life
Shape
Spent
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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 / Voice Actor
Cameras
Different Kinds
Human Behavior
Majors
Skin
Classrooms
Experienced
Pigeonholed
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Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your guy is, and just try to be as honest and simple and real as you can possibly be. The outer trappings are incidental - costumes, period, makeup - all of that is rather insignificant at the end of the day.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Character
Makeup
Real
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I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Beautiful Things
Consistent
Essence
Moments
Disparate
Happening
Opposed
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I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Department
Drama
High School
Swimming
Team
Thrown
Boy
Audition
Good Drama School
Coach
Forced
In Fact
School Play
Suggested
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I like doing voiceover work. I just like it in general, because you're constantly working on a very first-instinct level. You show up, you get in front of the microphone, you look at the lines, you say the lines, and then you move on. You work on a really primal level, is what I'm saying. You don't have to shave. You don't even have to wear pants. But, uh, that wasn't your question.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Levels
Looks
Moving
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I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being...So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another...One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.
Ron Perlman / Voice Actor
Emotional
Spiritual
Unique
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