Cully Perlman Quotes

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

It means, in essence, "I'll find a way or I'll make one." It's how I live my life. Another definition is basically "Never give up," which is the path I've taken when it comes to writing books. I've been writing for almost 30 years and just had my first book, THE LOSSES, come out by a small press. And I'm psyched. Just keep on trucking. ~ Cully Perlman

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented. ~ Ron Perlman

Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves. ~ Itzhak Perlman

Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits. ~ Rhea Perlman

No matter what line of work you do, success cannot truly be achieved until you own who you are. The most offensive liability then becomes an asset. It makes you perform your best, regardless of the challenges you might face. ~ Ron Perlman

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. ~ Ron Perlman

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

[T]he best historians ... take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding of people and the highest imaginative powers. ~ Elliot Perlman

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone? ~ Elliot Perlman

There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and you got some chemistry going, even if a show is taking a little while to find an audience, if you keep it there, that audience will find it. Because that's what happened with 'Cheers.' ~ Rhea Perlman

The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it. ~ Elliot Perlman

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because ... well I guess I'm afraid to. ~ Ron Perlman

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. ~ Elliot Perlman

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me. ~ Ron Perlman

We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means. ~ Rhea Perlman

The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse. ~ Elliot Perlman

Fuck waiting for the world to change you; you start by trying to change it. And if you are pure of heart and your intentions are good, you can't lose. Even if nothing happens, you can't lose. ~ Ron Perlman

When I met him, he hadn't eaten for days, and lived in a rathole. But his rifle was clean and he had lots of ammunition. Whenever he heard shooting he ran towards it. If it was workers shooting at priests, state officials, capitalists, or cops, he'd empty his rifle as fast as he could fill it. But if two groups of workers ever shot at each other, he'd risk his life by standing between them and shouting, "When workers kill each other, there is no more reason to live! Kill me from both sides."
-- Luisa Nachalo ~ Sophia Nachalo

What I've learned, more than anything, as a young actor who has been in the business for 10 years, is just to be around guys and girls, like Ron Perlman, Bill Lucking, Kim Coates, Tommy Flanagan, Katey Sagal, who have been in this business for a very long time, and to learn what to do and what not to do from them, every day, and to see how they navigate through their Hollywood life. ~ Theo Rossi

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive. ~ Ron Perlman

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. ~ Itzhak Perlman

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews. ~ Rhea Perlman

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her. ~ Elliot Perlman

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. ~ Itzhak Perlman

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right. ~ Elliot Perlman

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

The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance. ~ Elliot Perlman

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
To spin, to weep, and cully human race. ~ Alexander Pope

I like doing voiceover work. I just like it in general, because you're constantly working on a very first-instinct level. You show up, you get in front of the microphone, you look at the lines, you say the lines, and then you move on. You work on a really primal level, is what I'm saying. You don't have to shave. You don't even have to wear pants. But, uh, that wasn't your question. ~ Ron Perlman

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. ~ Itzhak Perlman

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages. ~ Itzhak Perlman

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. ~ Ron Perlman

I do voicework all the time. ~ Ron Perlman

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema. ~ Ron Perlman

Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way, I had kept time for her. There was the time before we were married and the time after. There was the time before I was hospitalised and the time after. There was the time she needed me and the time after. And there is now. ~ Elliot Perlman

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. ~ Ron Perlman

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through. ~ Itzhak Perlman

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left. ~ Itzhak Perlman