Jon Voight Quotes (31 Quotes)


    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.

    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.

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

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

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


    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.

    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.

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

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

    I'll listen to anybody about something but I also know what my work has to be and I bring that to the table. I come very prepared. I come very prepared to do something the best I can. But I can go off and stuff like that. I need somebody to tell me, 'I think it's over here.'

    I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

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

    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.

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

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

    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.

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

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

    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 thatwhen you do a lot of computer graphics in a movie, lots of technical stuffit'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.

    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.

    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,

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

    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.

    The stuff of his youth was full of real peril and witnessing many extraordinary things, ... has got the action part and I've got the elder statesman part -- the papal part.

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

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

    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?'

    I think I'm pretty known now. Over the years, people know you pretty good and I don't think there's too many misconceptions out there.

    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.

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


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