Jon Voight Quotes

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

Actors are very demanding because they have nowhere to hide. If I write a scene, it doesn't turn out very well, I don't ever have to show it to anyone; when you turn the camera on, or when you walk on stage, they have to feel like what's happening is real.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

I am neither a method actor nor a trained one. So, I don't generally prepare for any role. Becoming the character and being in that moment are most important.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.