Ron Perlman Quotes

I am not overconfident.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

I'm not fighting with myself.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.