Quotes from Ron Perlman

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

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.

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.

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.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.

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.

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

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

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.

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

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

Fearless people are interesting to watch.

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 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.

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.

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.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

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

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.

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

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.