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.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.

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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.