Ron Perlman Quotes

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

As I've gotten older, I've started to find my voice.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.