Ron Silver
Ron Silver
Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silverwas an American actor, director, producer, radio host, and political activist. He played Henry Kissinger, Alan M. Dershowitz and Angelo Dundee on the screen and supported Bill Clinton, Rudolph Giuliani and George W. Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks. He was awarded a Tony in 1988 for Best Actor for Speed-the-Plow, a satirical dissection of the American movie business...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 July 1946
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.
I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me
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
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
I kind of dwindled into acting.
Nobody has a franchise on what is good
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity
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
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite
If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains
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.