Ron Silver Quotes

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

  Ron Silver

  Relationship, Mean, Use

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

  Ron Silver

  Thinking, Optimist, Obligation

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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

  Ron Silver

  Respect, Century, Scales

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• Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

  Ron Silver

  Use, Affair, Involvement

  "Q&A : Ron Silver on the Price of Activism". Interview With Barbara Isenberg, articles.latimes.com. June 07, 1992.

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

  Ron Silver

  Smart, Thinking, People

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• 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

  Motivation, Thinking, People

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

  Ron Silver

  Growing Up, Thinking, Grows

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

  Ron Silver

  Art, Europe, People

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• 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

  Thinking, Night, Six

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

  Ron Silver

  Skills, Energy, Concentration

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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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.

  Ron Silver

  Dream, Character, People

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

  Ron Silver

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me

  Ron Silver

  Spirit, Kind

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

  Ron Silver

  Rights, Laughing, Ethics

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

  Ron Silver

  People, Immature, Way

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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.

  Ron Silver

  Respect, People, Actors

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

  Ron Silver

  Smart, People, Attention

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

  Ron Silver

  Character, Knowing, Acting

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• I'm a 9/11 Republican.

  Ron Silver

  Republican

  "A Liberal Hollywood Actor Who Speaks Up for Bush" by Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2004.

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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

  Ron Silver

  Education, People, Actors

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• It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world

  Ron Silver

  World, Persons

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

  Ron Silver

  Years, Careers, Firsts

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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

  Peace, Past, Pay The Price

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

  Ron Silver

  Artist, Careers, Damage

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

  Ron Silver

  Running, Office, Littles

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