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 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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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.
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But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
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Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good 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?'
