Ron Silver Quotes

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

Time, Smart, Person

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.
Ron Silver

Sometimes, Makes, Body

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

Relationship, Means, Word

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Ron Silver

Life, Respect, Human

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

Character, Acting, Knowing

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

Truth, Fear, Speak

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.
Ron Silver

Character, Understand, Dream

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

Why, Lose, Office

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.
Ron Silver

Career, Ten, Motivated

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.
Ron Silver

Life, Learning, Important

I do believe all actors are smart.
Ron Silver

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

Age, Desire, Early

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

Same, Used, Dinner

I kind of dwindled into acting.
Ron Silver

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.
Ron Silver

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.
Ron Silver

Respect, Difficult, Actually

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

Real, Thought, Easy

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

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
Ron Silver

Good, Smart, Talk

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
Ron Silver

Change, Nothing, Optimist

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

Business, Immature, Handled

I'm a 9/11 Republican.
Ron Silver

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.
Ron Silver

Education, Good, Seen

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.
Ron Silver

Start, Kids, Days

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.
Ron Silver

Work, Night, Read

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 2, 1946

Died: March 15, 2009

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