Quotes from Ron Silver

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

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

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

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 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.

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

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

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

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

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 can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

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'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.

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

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

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.

I'm a 9/11 Republican.