Ron Perlman Quotes (13 Quotes)


    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 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.

    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.

    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.

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


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

    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.

    I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of performance.

    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.

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

    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.

    Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

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


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