Ron Perlman Quotes

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

Once you are known, people start banking on you and see if your other projects are successful or not.

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

If you stop me from scoring, and I don't do anything else, then I've not really played well, have I? You can't score every game, so what are you doing if you're not scoring?

It was nice to have success in the SheBelieves Cup, but that just brings more pressure.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

You never know what's gonna be a hit.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

The realism of failure, the romance of success.