I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work … - Ron Perlman

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If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.

Ron Perlman

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.

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I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Being Thankful, Breathing, Grass, Gratitude, Thankful

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home. " I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

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I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being. . . So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another. . . One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.

Emotional, Monster, Overcompensate, Spiritual, Unique

The approach to acting is always the same, you try to figure who the guy is and then you try to transition your way into his way of thinking and moving through the world. The rest of it is just accoutrements, you don't play the makeup, you play the guy. If you're not wearing makeup, you just play the guy.

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I love great animation.

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