“ I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. ”
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
~ Ron Perlman
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.