Ron Eldard: My high school years I was working probably 30 hours a week. I'd work all weekends, three or four nights a week. I got home at 4 and worked till 11. That was fine. I spent my time acting.
Ron Eldard: (About auditioning for Fame and Fortune) You have to think you'll be one of the ones who makes it.
Ron Eldard: I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business where they usually want you to play the same character over and over. Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies. That's not the kind of career I want.
Ron Eldard has frequently acted in the theatre, with two notable occasions being the Tony Award winning production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, where he played the role of Biff Loman, and Neil LaBute's Bash: Latterday Plays in which he starred alongside Calista Flockhart.
Ron Eldard starred in the 1991 movie Drop Dead Fred alongside Rik Mayall and the 1998 movie Deep Impact starring Robert Duvall.
Ron Eldard is a former Golden Gloves boxer and is now actively interested in jiu jitsu.
In the 2002 movie Phone Booth Ron Eldard was the original voice of the caller, but was later replaced by Keifer Sutherland during re-shoots.
Ron Eldard was able to bench press 312lbs when he was in High School.
Ron Eldard's mother died when he was young and he and his six siblings grew up with various relatives.