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I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

Ron Perlman

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Ron Perlman
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 13
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You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.
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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.
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My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
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I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.
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Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.
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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.
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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.
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Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.
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I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.
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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.
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I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.
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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.
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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.
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You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
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