Ron Silver famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Relationship #Mean #Use
I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
-- Ron Silver

#Smart #Thinking #People
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
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
I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up
-- Ron Silver

#Growing Up #Thinking #Grows
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
It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world
-- Ron Silver

#World #Persons
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
I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me
-- Ron Silver

#Spirit #Kind
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.
-- Ron Silver

#Rights #Laughing #Ethics
I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
-- Ron Silver

#People #Immature #Way
If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains
-- Ron Silver

#Pain #Kids #Withdrawal
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite
-- Ron Silver

#Art #Europe #People
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
For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.
-- Ron Silver

#Years #Careers #Firsts
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
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
-- Ron Silver

#Artist #Careers #Damage
But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?
-- Ron Silver

#Running #Office #Littles
I do believe all actors are smart.
-- Ron Silver

#Smart #Believe #Actors
I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.
-- Ron Silver

#Age #Desire #Stage
I kind of dwindled into acting.
-- Ron Silver

#Acting #Kind
Nobody has a franchise on what is good.
-- Ron Silver
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity
-- Ron Silver

#Use #Affair #Involvement
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
-- Ron Silver

#Skills #Energy #Concentration

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