Robert De Niro, accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 SAG Awards:
"I can imagine some of you saying, 'Alright, OK, stay out of politics,' but we're in such a dire situation, so deeply concerning to me and to so many others, I have to say something. And I thought I said it pretty well to Variety the other day, so I'm going to quote myself. There's right and there's wrong, and there's common sense, and there's abuse of power, and as a citizen I have as much right as anybody, an actor, an athlete, a musician, or anybody else to voice my opinion."
Citizens have the right to speak up, and if your job, your position, affords you a larger stage from which to speak, so be it.
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