Jon Voight Quotes

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

For me, I love auditioning.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

Acting is in your soul.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.