Ron Silver Quotes

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.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

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

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

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.

I kind of dwindled into acting.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

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

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

I'm a 9/11 Republican.

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

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

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

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

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

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.