Jon Voight Quotes

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Sometimes it's important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

It's a conscious decision to keep trying to do something new, to do things that excite me from my gut.

I just want to keep challenging myself and keep, like, trying new things.

I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.

I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I'm doing it pretty well.

You only get one shot in your life and you might as well push yourself and try things. There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie; the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations. It's a great, great thing to be involved in if you have the headspace for it, and I do. Try anything once.

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

Everyone needs some trial and error figuring out how it's gonna work for them. I could have gotten that out of the way a little sooner but I think you're totally right, the way I kind of think about things and the way I wanted to put myself out there doesn't fit the traditional side of things. I needed things like podcasts and YouTube and things that allow you to get it out there yourself and stand in the flames.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.