Ron Silver

“I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.”

“Nobody has a franchise on what is good.”

“But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?”

“I kind of dwindled into acting.”

“I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.”

“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.”

“Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.”

“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.”