Perlman: "If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that."

Perlman: "I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck."

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

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."

Perlman: "My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance."

Perlman: "You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature."

Perlman: "I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight."

Perlman: "Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality."

Perlman: "I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor."

Perlman: "Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it."

Perlman: "I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun."

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."

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