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
Even though I am a well-recognized liberal on many issues confronting our society today, I find it ironic that many human rights advocates and outspoken members of my own entertainment community are often on the front lines to protest repression, for which I applaud them but they are usually the first ones to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they catalogue repeatedly.
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.
We will never forgive. Never forget. Never excuse!
I started taking acting classes because I had fooled around with it in college and I had received some encouragement and liked it.
Isn't the rationale, fundamentally, for democracy, that we're going to get people of unequal abilities to ultimately make very important decisions?
I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.
I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.
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.
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.
What I liked about Clinton is what I like about Rudy, strange as that may sound: their approach to crime and family responsibility.
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.
And, more than anything else, what I liked about it - which doesn't work for all actors - was the reflective nature, the self-reflection.
I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.
I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up