Jon Voight Quotes

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

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

For me, acting is doing.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

Acting is a really insular thing.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

I'll say that, Bill Camp, from 'The Night Of,' is one of our great actors.

I will never be a Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep, the kind of actor that disappears into a role.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.