Ron Perlman famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Gratitude #Breathing #Being Thankful
I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.
-- Ron Perlman

#Spiritual #Religious #Church
I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being...So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another...One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.
-- Ron Perlman

#Spiritual #Emotional #Unique
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Home #Play #Guy
Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.
-- Ron Perlman

#Would Be #Cinema #Ifs
I love great animation.
-- Ron Perlman

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

#Jobs #Hate #Passion
My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.
-- Ron Perlman

#Self Confidence #Self #Appearance
Fearless people are interesting to watch.
-- Ron Perlman

#People #Interesting #Fearless
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Fighting #Thinking #People
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Birthday #Age #Events
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Real #Exception To The Rule #Exception
I love to continue to challenge myself and put myself in situations that are slightly uncomfortable.
-- Ron Perlman

#Challenges #Situation #Uncomfortable
I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.
-- Ron Perlman

#Way #Action #Wanted
I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.
-- Ron Perlman

#Blessed #Opportunity
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Differences #People #Doe
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Mean #Trying #Awareness
I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.
-- Ron Perlman

#Way #My Way
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Opposites #Interesting #Culture
As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.
-- Ron Perlman

#Alternatives #Actors #Want
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Character #Blood #Transition
"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
-- Ron Perlman

#Heard #Euphemism #Ifs
It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.
-- Ron Perlman

#Nice #Pay #Hours
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Mouths #Take Me #Direct
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.
-- Ron Perlman

#Busy #Periods

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