Jon Voight - biography

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I’ve gone through a lot of stuff in my life.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I play a detective, very close to myself actually.”

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

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

“There’s the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight.”

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

Jon Voight has appeared in the following films:
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Fearless Frank (1967)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Out of It (1969)
Catch-22 (1970)
The Revolutionary (1970)
Deliverance (1972)
The All-American Boy (1973)
The Odessa File (1974)
Conrack (1974)
Der Richter und sein Henker (1975)
Coming Home (1978)
The Champ (1979)
Lookin’ to Get Out (1982)
Table for Five (1983)
Runaway Train (1985)
Desert Bloom (1986)
Eternity (1990)
The Rainbow Warrior (1992)
Heat (1995)
Mission Impossible (1996)
The Rainmaker (1997)
Most Wanted (1997)
Rosewood (1997)
U Turn (1997)
Anaconda (1997)
Enemy of the State (1998)
The General (1998)
A Dog of Flanders (1999)
Varsity Blues (1999)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Zoolander (2001)
Ali (2001)
Holes (2003)
National Treasure (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Glory Road (2006)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Bratz (2007)
Transformers (2007)
Four Christmases (2008)
Pride and Glory (2008)
Beyond (2011)


Jon Voight contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Lookin’ to Get Out (1982)
Eternity (1990)