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.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

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

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.