Ron Perlman Quotes

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy 'Black-ish' gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of 'Hannibal,' I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It's really wonderful.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

The platform doesn't really matter to me, whether it's stage or theatre or even a web series. I just am more interested in, like, if it's a story that I would want to watch and if it's a character that I feel like I can contribute something to, then that's really what gets me.

I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other.

I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.

At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

There are some roles that are more still and internal and emotional, and others that are more physical, which get you out of your mind for a while.

I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.

You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.

As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.

The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not.

It's only when I feel that I can do justice to a character that I take up a film.

I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen.

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

I would say runway is easier because your job is to look good or play a character that is just going somewhere. It's rather physical, whereas acting is terrifying because you're dealing with your subconscious, and those can be murky waters. But I definitely can say that I enjoy acting more as an artist.

I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.