Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
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Even though I am a well-recognized liberal on many issues confronting our society today, I find it ironic that many human rights advocates and outspoken members of my own entertainment community are often on the front lines to protest repression, for which I applaud them but they are usually the first ones to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they catalogue repeatedly.Ron Silver
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
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
Ron Silver
And, more than anything else, what I liked about it - which doesn't work for all actors - was the reflective nature, the self-reflection.
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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
It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.
Ron Silver
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