137 Quotes by Ron Perlman

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.

Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living with bits of memories that, with each day, pass through the fingers like a handful of sand.

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.

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.

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.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn’t get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.

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.

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.

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.