Ron Perlman Quotes
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The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.
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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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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.
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"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
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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.
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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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Every job has a unique situational circumstance.
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People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it`s as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.
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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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I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. 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.
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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.
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I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point.
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That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.
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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.
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I do voicework all the time.
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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 like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
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I live in a bubble. 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.
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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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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.
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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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I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.
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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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Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.
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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.
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Fearless people are interesting to watch.
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My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.
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I love great animation.
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The approach to acting is always the same, you try to figure who the guy is and then you try to transition your way into his way of thinking and moving through the world. The rest of it is just accoutrements, you don't play the makeup, you play the guy. If you're not wearing makeup, you just play the guy.
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