Ron Perlman

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.

It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.