Quotes by Jon Voight

Boy, I learn from everybody.

He had his own vision of things and you could see that he was very much an energy, very specific and helpful energy to the Simpson-Bruckheimer stuff. And I've gotten to know him in the last couple of years and I asked him, 'What makes you successful?' And he said, 'Jon, it's real simple. I just make movies that I want to see.'

I find that the director's I've been working with, Gardener and Turtletaub and this fellow Lloyd Kramer, who directed The Five People You Meet in Heaven , this Mitch Albom piece which is going to be aired in December, these guys [are] all very respectful of me, but all very collaborative. They include me in on things and they'll listen to my opinion and they'll share with me their opinions. They have very good eyes, all three of them. I really trust them.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

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.

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?'

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.'

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

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

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

The guy wrote this great piece [with a] great character and wanted somebody to carry that story. Or Jerry Bruckheimer, thinking I can do anything - It's exciting, you know. Michael Mann calling me up and saying, 'What do you think about playing Howard Cosell?' That's a leap of some kind of faith or whatever it is.

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

When he's on the set, he has no movie star stuff going on. He's an actor and he's very good, maybe even especially with this, because he was trying to get this chemistry going between the three characters, between his character and Justin Bartha's and Diane Kruger.

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.

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.

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.