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Ronald Arthur "Ron" Silver (July 2, 1946 – March 15, 2009) was an American actor, director, producer, and political activist. Silver was born in New York City, New York, the son of May (née Zimelman), a substitute teacher, and Irving Roy Silver, a clothing sales executive. Silver was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and attended The East Side Hebrew Institute ("ESHI") and then Stuyvesant High School. He went on to graduate from the SUNY at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Chinese, and received a Master`s Degree in Chinese History from St. John`s University in New York and the College of Chinese Culture in Taiwan. He also attended Columbia University`s Graduate School of International Affairs.
Silver traveled to more than 30 countries and spoke fluent Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. He taught at the high school level and was a social worker for the Department of Social Services. Silver died on March 15, 2009 in New York City after a two-year battle with esophageal cancer. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Silver |
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Quotes I`m a 9/11 Republican. I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage. I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy. Isn`t the rationale, fundamentally, for democracy, that we`re going to get people of unequal abilities to ultimately make very important decisions? For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn`t terribly motivated. I still think I`m going to do something else when I grow up. If I don`t see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains. I just don`t get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to. Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. I do believe all actors are smart. What I liked about Clinton is what I like about Rudy, strange as that may sound: their approach to crime and family responsibility. I kind of dwindled into acting. 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 was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people. 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. Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill. I started taking acting classes because I had fooled around with it in college and I had received some encouragement and liked it. But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have? In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. I think it`s good to meet smart people and talk. Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity. 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. Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it`s about character. I don`t even like to use the word relationship. I don`t know what it means. And, more than anything else, what I liked about it - which doesn`t work for all actors - was the reflective nature, the self-reflection. 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. 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. Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. 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. Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. 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. 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`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. Nobody has a franchise on what is good. 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. I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me. I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you`re not, nothing will change. | ||
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