Jon Voight Quotations

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

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.

Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

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.

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

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

I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

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.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.

The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.

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.

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

He had great charisma and he had great love for people in general, and a great regard for young people, ... He had real faith and real fervor, and he was a man of God. He did some great things, some controversial things.

People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

I think I had to live a life (before doing this). For some reason I have had success playing the suffering souls so that the last stages (of the Pope's life) were comfortable for me,

I think he taught people the dignity of life and the dignity going into that last phase, toward death,

Well, of course, this one is going to have a lot of special effects, a lot of computer graphics and stuff like that, so it seems. So the actors will be tested. Their patience will be tested with lots of different things. But it's going to be interesting, too. When you do something like that?when you do a lot of computer graphics in a movie, lots of technical stuff?it's quite intriguing. It's a lot of fun, you know? It brings you back to your childhood, and you want to see how things work.

Angelina adopted a Cambodian baby. I'm a grandfather today.

It shows him as a moral force, his energy and spirit. I think it will be a film moving to many people.

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

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?

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'

I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot.

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life.

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

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

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

Well sir, I may not be a for-real cowboy... But I am one hell of a stud!

The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds people poison, giving them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier who have lived and worked in a democracy that understands that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy ... [Obama uses] a socialistic, Marxist teaching, and with it, he rapes this nation...

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.