Ronald Perelman Quotes

#1. In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#2. Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Lynn Abbey

#3. Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

Ronald Perelman

#4. I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

Ronald Perelman

#5. I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

Anna Kendrick

#6. I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Ronald Perelman

#7. And so I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place and an enormous sense of stability.

Ronald Perelman

#8. If someone comes into your house and does fked-up things to your kids and your wife, you're going to be capable of things you never imagined. Because it's in there. It might be lying dormant, but it's there.

Ronald Perelman

#9. He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Mainstream is the melting pot of everybody sometimes for much of its faults and triumphs it's the world out there that reveals so much more about you than the man-made boundaries that are created.

Paul Isaacs

#12. I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

Ronald Perelman

#13. Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

Ronald Perelman

#14. But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.

Ronald Perelman

#15. As an old friend of mine once said when I brought him some interesting brownies, 'You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes,'" she replied. "Haven't you read your Maimonides?

Gregory Maguire

#16. Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.

Ronald Perelman

#17. I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

Ronald Perelman

#18. The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Joe Orton

#19. I will ask you again. Are you mad?
Well, that is the rumor, isn't it?

Ronda Thompson

#20. I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.

Ronald Perelman

#21. So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Harold Acton

#22. You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Ronald Perelman

#23. The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

William Sharp

#24. Singing rose up from the convent, filling the woods with a peaceful echo that tried to penetrate her heart and smooth her features; but nothing could ease the pain of saying goodbye.

Kate Willis

#25. Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

Alfred Austin

#26. The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

Ronald Perelman