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
Isn't the rationale, fundamentally, for democracy, that we're going to get people of unequal abilities to ultimately make very important decisions?
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.
I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.
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.
I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
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
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite
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.
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.
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.
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.