Quotes from Ron Perlman

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

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.

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.

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.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

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.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

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.

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'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.

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.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point.

I do voicework all the time.

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

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.

I love great animation.

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.