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

And, more than anything else, what I liked about it - which doesn't work for all actors - was the reflective nature, the self-reflection.
-- Ron Silver

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

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

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

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

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

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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I do believe all actors are smart.
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I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
-- Ron Silver

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

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

I kind of dwindled into acting.
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I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.
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I know people, I compete with people, who are not as well educated as I am who are better actors than I will ever be.
-- 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

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.
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I started taking acting classes because I had fooled around with it in college and I had received some encouragement and liked it.
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I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.
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I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
-- Ron Silver

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

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

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

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

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

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.
-- Ron Silver

Isn't the rationale, fundamentally, for democracy, that we're going to get people of unequal abilities to ultimately make very important decisions?
-- Ron Silver

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.
-- Ron Silver

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.
-- Ron Silver

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.
-- Ron Silver

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

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

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

There's a certain point in your career where you're not getting the roles you like, where you've made mistakes.
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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.
-- Ron Silver

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.
-- Ron Silver

What I liked about Clinton is what I like about Rudy, strange as that may sound: their approach to crime and family responsibility.
-- Ron Silver

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

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