Jon Voight Quotes
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?'
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I'm not into pancake things. I'm into eggs. Lots of eggs.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
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Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.
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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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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?'
