Jon Voight Quotes
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.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.
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My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnt in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.
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Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
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The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.
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I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.
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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.
