64 Quotes by Ron Silver

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn’t terribly motivated.

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.

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

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.

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.

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.

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

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it’s about character.