Ron Silver Quotes

• I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

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

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• I do believe all actors are smart.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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