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I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
Ron Silver
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Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
Ron Silver
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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
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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change
Ron Silver
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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
Ron Silver
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Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
Ron Silver
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Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.
Ron Silver
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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
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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
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Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity
Ron Silver
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I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
Ron Silver
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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.
Ron Silver
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I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
Ron Silver
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I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up
Ron Silver
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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
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I kind of dwindled into acting.
Ron Silver
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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
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I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me
Ron Silver
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Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.
Ron Silver
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Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.
Ron Silver
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I'm a 9/11 Republican.
Ron Silver
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It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world
Ron Silver
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For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.
Ron Silver
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Nobody has a franchise on what is good.
Ron Silver
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I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.
Ron Silver
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I do believe all actors are smart.
Ron Silver
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In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite
Ron Silver
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But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?
Ron Silver
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If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains
Ron Silver