Ron Perlman Quotes

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

In real life I'm shy sometimes, sometimes I'm romantic, sometimes I can be funny, so it's great to be doing different kinds of parts that expose your personality.

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time