Ron Perlman Quotes

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.

I've been acting professionally since I was 24, and it's the only job I've ever done.

There's just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.

I've acted since I was 5 years old, so that's still something I want to do.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

People really don't understand what actors do.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.