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 still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change
I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
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
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.
Isn't the rationale, fundamentally, for democracy, that we're going to get people of unequal abilities to ultimately make very important decisions?
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.
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.
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.