Ron Silver Quotes

• Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

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• I don’t even like to use the word relationship. I don’t know what it means.

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• I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you’re not, nothing will change.

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• Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it’s about character.

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• But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It’s about character, it’s about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don’t see.

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• Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

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• For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn’t terribly motivated.

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• I can’t talk about foreign policy like anyone who’s spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it’s very important that I participate in that.

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• But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

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• I kind of dwindled into acting.

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• I just don’t get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

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• I do believe all actors are smart.

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• I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

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• I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

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• I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

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• I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

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• I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

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• I think it’s good to meet smart people and talk.

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• I’ve seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I’ve seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

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• Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

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Ron Silver (34)

Birth:	2nd July, 1946
Death:	15th March, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer

About

Silver was born in New York City, the son of May, a substitute teacher, and Irving Roy Silver, a clothing sales executive.Silver was raised Jewish on the Lower East Side of Manhattan attended Stuyvesant High School.

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