Jon Voight Quotes

1. I was raised Catholic…I fell in love with certain ideals.




2. "Climb Every Mountain" is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think "The Sound of Music" is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

3. Well, of course, this one is going to have a lot of special effects, a lot of computer graphics and stuff like that, so it seems. So the actors will be tested. Their patience will be tested with lots of different things. But it's going to be interesting, too. When you do something like that? When you do a lot of computer graphics in a movie, lots of technical stuff? It's quite intriguing. It's a lot of fun, you know? It brings you back to your childhood, and you want to see how things work.

4. I'll listen to anybody about something but I also know what my work has to be and I bring that to the table. I come very prepared. I come very prepared to do something (the) best I can. But I can go off and stuff like that. I need somebody to tell me: "I think it's over here."

5. You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.



6. I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

7. This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.




8. Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

9. I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

10. In most ways it was a damn good picture. But if we remade "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) today, the whole relationship between Buck and Ratso would have to be sexualized or at least made, you know, like in love...to be sexually or erotically honest.




11. I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?

12. I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know: "How do I get to be a serious actor?"

13. I think I had to live a life (before doing this). For some reason I have had success playing the suffering souls so that the last stages (of the Pope's life) were comfortable for me.



14. You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

15. Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.




16. I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life.

17. When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

18. Boy, I learn from everybody.





19. Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book "Rules for Radicals," by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

20. The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.





21. If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

22. I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.

23. Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this "Obama" - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

24. If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say: "I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting." And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.
 

25. I think I'm pretty known now. Over the years, people know you pretty good (and) I don't think there's too many misconceptions out there.

26. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

27. This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

28. The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The "change" they envisioned is not the "change" they have gotten.

29. It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.

30. We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

31. There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

32. One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.



33. I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

34. I'm really excited about that picture, just because the ingredient - Can you imagine saying you've never seen anything like this before?

35. The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.

36. There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

37. People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

38. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

39. Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.


40. (on Angelina Jolie) Angelina adopted a Cambodian baby. I'm a grandfather today.

41. (on Angelina Jolie) Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

42. Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

43. There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.


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