Ron Perlman

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

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

“I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.”

“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 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.”

“Well, I don't have an agenda.”

“You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.”

“I live in a bubble.”

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

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

“Every job has a unique situational circumstance.”

“I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.”

“There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.”

“I do voicework all the time.”

“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.”

“I love great animation.”

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

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

“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.”