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.

Jon Voight

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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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• 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!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• 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.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Love

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• 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.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Talk

• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Best
  • Try
  • Performance

• It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Road

• There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Life
  • Funny

• Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Jon Voight
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Opportunity