WEBVTT - Episode 11: A One-on-One with Jon Voight 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.040 Up next, The Truth with Lisa Booth at the America 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.880 is losing its way, not because of the people who 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.399 just want what's best for their country, they just want 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.160 what's best for their families, but because of the radical 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.880 leftist overtaking our culture and the cowardly leads wielding too 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.680 much power that are trying to drive this country apart. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.880 Simply put, America needs to recover its values, recover a 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.920 traditional way of life. This is the Truth with Lisa Booth. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.160 Welcome back to the Truth with Lisa Booth. I've got 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.240 a tremendous show for you guys this week. I am 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.680 so so excited about it because my guest is the 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:49.559 one and only John Voight, Academy Award winning actor, all 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.599 around amazing guy, great patriot as well. He's been an 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:58.080 outspoken conservative, unafraid to buck the far left Hollywood establishment. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:02.880 He's a wonderful storyteller. It's always entertaining, always insightful, and 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.200 today I asked him about his upbringing, his career, how 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.640 we got into acting, and of course the state of 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.000 our country. With that, I want to welcome the great 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.520 John Voight to the Truth with Lisa Booth. Mr boy, 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.840 it is my honor. It is my pleasure to speak 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.280 with you, well, at least it's a pleasure to be 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.360 speaking with you. I've been impressed with you, you know, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.040 down through the years, even so you don't want to 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.520 set and you know, expressed my appreciation of what you're doing, 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.240 and it's it's good to talk to you. Thank you, 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.120 and just so for everyone to note, So I met 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.440 Mr Boy on set when I was guest co hosting 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.120 on Fox and Friends, and you were so kind and 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.039 so humble and just exceptionally kind. That was something that 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.280 really stood out to me after meeting you, just how 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.640 nice you were to everyone and including myself. And then 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.160 well that good for me, yes, good for me too, 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.200 me too. It's much it's much better than the alternative, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.160 right you bet, you bet us. And it's not nice 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.880 to be on the Fox channel when I am, and 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.560 I pay attention to it, and I've watched your you 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.919 know work over the years now a couple of years, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.120 and it's you just terrific. So it's always nice to 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.639 see your face and your presence and the various shows 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.680 that you do. Well, Thank you, sir. That's a huge 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.639 honor and huge compliment coming from you. So I really 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.119 appreciate it, you know, And so I think sometimes, I mean, look, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.239 you're a huge Hollywood star. You have had an incredibly 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.440 long career, an incredibly successful career, and so I think 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.920 sometimes when someone has been out in the public so 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.359 so long, they kind of forget you. Who is John Voyett? Like, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.400 what was your what was your childhood like? Growing up? 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.480 Tell us a little bit about your upbringing. I will. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.040 I was just gonna say, you know, life is very short. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.120 People say that all the time to the little kids, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.200 and then little kids are thinking, oh my god, it's 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.240 going to be so long before I get to be 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:59.320 eighteen or so. It wants so much to advance and 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.200 grow in all of that, and life is very short, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.800 and a career is very short. And at one point 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.600 somebody asked me, some young lady asked me who was 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.800 Carrie Grant? And I couldn't believe that I was listening 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.920 to this, because in my lifetime he was, you know, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.080 such a splendid part of our lives, watching his great movies. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.240 And I couldn't believe that the kids didn't know him, 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.680 you know. And I'm like that now I'm getting older, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.640 and so the new ones are coming forth and and uh, 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.720 it's it's just interesting to look back on different things. Anyway, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.960 I I've forgotten the question, what was your childhood like? 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.600 Growing up? You know what, what were your parents like? Yeah? 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.600 So what my child I grew up in Yonkers Younger's, 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:50.480 New York, and I had two brothers. We were we 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.880 were threesome. We were only a year apart, and I 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.560 was in the middle. And uh, from the earliest time 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.320 we you know, we were all a rambunctious, very give 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.120 three kids and my and each one of us went 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:11.160 our different ways. My my younger brother became enamored of 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.680 music and uh and went on to be a singer songwriter, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.080 and he wrote A Wild Thing, an Angel of the Morning, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.760 and many many great hits. And he's still writing today 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.760 and he's a wonderful and he's in the you know, uh, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:29.039 Songwriters Hall of Fame and and stuff. And my older brother, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.160 Barry was always when he was a young fellow, was 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.359 out with his uncle who would come back from the service. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.600 This was in the forties, and he would go on 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.800 camping trips and stuff. And he was very interested in 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.720 nature and he would take photographsive of the natural world 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.760 and different animals and stuff, and and he became a 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:55.040 geologist and a a well known volcanologist of volcano expert, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:02.960 and he's he's been faded in put into entered a 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:08.120 major society in the scientific society, very elite society and 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.280 all of that. You know. So the kid we each 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.800 of us in our childhood gave evidence of what we 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.279 wanted to be, and we were given encouragement as kids 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:23.440 to follow, you know, whatever wherever our loves took us. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.599 And I as a kid was very playful. I was 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.480 kind of the glue in the family in a certain 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.920 sense for the children because I I kind of negotiated 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.760 between my two brothers, who both are fierce energies and 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.080 uh and we had a lot of fun. And I 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.520 was playful, and I would make up games to play 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.479 and I would When television came along in the fifties, 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:58.120 I started watching uh uh Saturday night show hour and 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.400 a half show called The Show of Show was your 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.320 Show of Shows? And it started Sid Caesar and Imagene 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:09.119 Coca and Carl Reiner and Howard Marks, those four and 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.080 it was written. This show was very popular at that time, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:20.000 and it was written by mel Brooks Woody Allen Neil Simon, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.640 all of the great comedy writers. Uh, we're part of 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.200 that show. And so I had a very I didn't 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.360 know it at the time, but I was being influenced 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.800 by really brilliant people in the entertainment world. And I 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.240 used to imitate this fellow, said Caesar a lot from 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:43.000 for the entertainment of my classmates. And and and that 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.400 became as I looked back, I said, wait a minute, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.039 I think I probably got more out of that. And 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.600 I did you know, on the other years, I've certainly 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.599 learned from many, many people on the way up. And 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:01.560 but but that initial signature was stay with me. So 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:06.200 because he was a character comedy actor, right, and I would, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.760 and I became a character actor. I was interested in 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:14.040 different kinds of characters and different accents and different behaviors, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.600 and that examination into those those areas of acting as 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.680 to oppose to leading the leading man kind of actor 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.360 who I have great appreciation for, guys who are pretty 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.080 much the same in every film, and I just know 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.400 how to how to do that kind of work and 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:36.160 are very charismatic. And I just I went off into 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.880 this other world of character acting and was influenced by 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.320 many people growing into it, you know, and working with 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.280 great people with Dustin Houton and this, you know. And 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.120 so how did you get into it, because you know, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.200 acting in Hollywood's obviously an incredibly hard career to sort 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.800 of get your foot in the door. How did you 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.360 do it? Well, it was a long process for me. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.800 No one in my family had any connection to to 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:07.160 you know, zoo acting or you know, entertainment. My band 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.480 was a golf professional, and he was and I have 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.680 to say, just take a word about my father was 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.880 a He was he loved golf. He was a great 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.760 golf professional. And he had a terrible accident when he's 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.200 eighteen years old. Uh, and he wasn't able to pursue 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:29.560 it created spin the accident that was happening coming from 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.400 a golf tournament in Chicago, and and the result of 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.679 the injury that he had created calcium depotits and a 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.240 spy and he wasn't able to be flexible, and he 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.720 wasn't able to play play golf on the tour. So 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.520 he lost the great love of his life. Really, but 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.760 he became a great teacher of golf and he and 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:55.040 we as his children, gained a father at home. He 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.880 wasn't away in the golf tournaments. And with the lures 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.080 of all of that, he was a great father, and 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.760 he was a great storyteller. And I don't know to 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.880 this day how he became so such a good storyteller 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.839 because he came from immigrant parents. His grand his father 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.680 couldn't speak very good English, never did pick up a 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:20.040 language too well, but was really really charming and funny, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:24.880 a good fellow. But my dad, Uh, with the help 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.120 I think of the members of the club. It was 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.400 a German Jewish country club that people couldn't get into 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.280 other country clubs because they were Jewish, so they built 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.400 their own club and my dad was the beneficiary of 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.480 that and our family and h and I think he 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.720 probably learned storytelling from those members as he was caddying 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.480 when he was a very young boy, and the stories 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.240 he told us at bedtime for several years in our 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:57.800 growing up were very key to UH, to us growing 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:03.960 properly and to enjoyment of things and insights into things, 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.080 because he would always put little messages into the stories 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.520 and stuff. And whenever you get into that phase of it, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.640 he's he gave well, you know, boys, you've got to 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.200 you know, know that you won't be able to run 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.800 as fast always, and you will be able to and 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.040 and and so you have to we'd say, tell the story, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.520 to get back to the story, get back to the story. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.320 We were very impatient. We didn't why did they tell us? 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.679 But the messages head home, I think. And uh. And 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.000 because of that, man, you know, a lot, a lot 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.240 I have to give my my father and mother great 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:45.360 credit for for whatever good I have in my personality today. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:50.160 But anyway, so we we grew up in in that 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.880 in that kind of an atmosphere when I was young, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.880 and I got caught, as I say, with this imitating 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.080 and being playful and all of that stuff, and I 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.280 thought I would go into it. I never you know, 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.440 it was a very interesting journey that I took. But 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:13.080 at the end of my college career, my my junior 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:18.400 year of college, right before I went into my senior college. Uh. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.120 And I was at College of Catholic University in Washington, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.600 d C. Which had a very good drama department, but 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.760 I was in the art department because I thought I 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.160 could get more more attention to other things. I was 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:35.040 very active in the in the let's say, the politics, 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.480 but also just a social life of the university. And 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.280 that was very good training for me. I must say 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.240 I enjoyed that and I grew from it. But I 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.720 kept asking people what I should do? What do you 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.240 think I should do? You know, who should I be? 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.320 A lawyer? Should I? And I thought about, you know, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.560 maybe a politician may be a teacher. Teacher, I'd be 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.839 a good teacher, and things like that, And and then 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.679 I was walking around campus with a book and I 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.319 looked at at one point I saw this book, and 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:08.599 I said, what am I doing in this book? And 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.760 of course I knew when I was in the book. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.520 But it was a book of criticisms of stage work 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.600 in the Golden Age of the British theater, with Laurence 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:24.040 Olivier and Ralph Richardson and John Gielden, those saws. And 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.120 it was by Kenneth Tynan, the leading critic at that time, 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.960 and he was very gave very elaborate descriptions of the 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.720 different performances in their effects. And I underlined and made 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.960 notes on all of Laurence Olivier's performances. The rest of 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.599 it I wasn't so interested in, but in his performances 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:48.000 I saw something about how he approached the character that 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.720 he was playing, and how he his choices in building 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.480 a character made a difference in the impact of the 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.200 of the play. I somehow understood that maybe I got 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.360 it from my you know, my father and the way 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:06.400 he told stories, because because I ingested all of that understanding, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.280 and and then maybe just there was a talent there 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.040 for me. I saw something. I saw how you affect 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.360 a story. So you so you grabbed the attention of 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.960 the people, and you moved them to this kind of thing, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.880 and and and once and I looked at that and 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.280 I said, actually, I think I even verbally said as 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.920 out loud. It was a load on campus looking at 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.920 this book. And I said, I know what I want 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.400 to do. I want to be him. I pointed to, 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:39.880 you know, something of Olivier's you know, so that's and 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:44.040 once I that moment, that epiphany that happened right there, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.760 that was it. I knew I was going to graduate 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.960 after this senior year, and I was going to go 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.320 on to New York and I was going to study. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.400 And I knew in my mind at that time these 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.600 are the things that I remember very visit, you know, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.319 I said, I and I know I'm not going to 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.120 give up. I'm going to do it. I'm gonna be 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.120 a success. In other words, I knew it was going 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.840 to be challenging. I know what he's going to go 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.679 up to death, but I knew I would. I know 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.440 it's stick with it. I knew would be okay. But 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.520 nobody else if certainly your parents don't when you're going 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.240 going towards such a shaky career, you know, you you 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.000 don't know if your child is going to be able 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.080 to make a living. Sur just one moment, we have 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:27.960 to take a quick break and then we'll get right 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:34.640 back to it. You know, you hear about the Hollywood industry. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.360 I mean you're out at castings and it's really it's 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.720 hard to get in the door, and you read stories 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.840 about people getting your story. But that's exactly well, I 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.640 have family, I have family, I have family in the industry, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.880 but I've also you know, you like you read about 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.560 different people's stories, like Sylvester Stallone stories always stood out 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.480 to me as well, and sort of his hustle and 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:59.040 getting you know, Rocky started. But how did you persevere? 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.000 Like what what what was that just trying to get 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.000 your foot your feet in the door. What was that 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.920 like for you of just trying to get that that 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.920 first gig, that that that first opportunity, that first ability 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.480 to show what you had to offer. What was that 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:18.800 like for you? Well, you don't you when you start out, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.760 you certainly don't have a lot of experience to tell 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.280 you who you are and what you do to see, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.480 so you have to gain some experience, and you have 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.880 to And I looked for a teacher right away in 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.920 New York, got a little apartment in New York with 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.240 two other guys. Thankfully they went almost never there, so 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.240 I had the place to myself. It was a little 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:47.040 bear apartment and there was a great Greek restaurant cafeteria downstairs, 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:52.760 which was very reasonable and kept me alive. And uh, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.560 but I tried to go to I went to classes, 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.760 I talked to actors, I took a try out for everything. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.640 All of that stuff, right, didn't have much success in 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.360 the beginning and long periods of drought, And if I 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.160 finally got I got into an acting coach and he 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.320 wasn't good. I turned out to be very bad. I 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.000 wasn't I wasn't learning anything. I was actually going backward. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.560 And then finally I got a teacher who was one 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.440 of the one of the great teachers at that time, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:31.600 Sanford Meisner. Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler and Lee Strasburg 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.560 were the three great teachers at that time that that 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.600 you were fortunate enough to you were fortunate if you 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.440 had any contact with And so I learned a basic, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.080 kind of basic for the for the craft. And of 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.520 course I had I had something in me that was 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.440 an I knew about entertainment. I could entertain people. I 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.600 did have abilities that I knew, but how they applied 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.120 in the real world I didn't know. So so I 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.680 worked very hard. And then when I got through that, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.480 and I had a little jobs too. Always I got 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.159 a little job, and I got a little job on 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:17.200 Broadway actually with the very early on playing the Telegraph 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.720 Boy and sound of Music, Ralph the fellow who turns 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:28.359 the family in, and and the and anyway. So I 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.359 had some success. I knew that I knew I had something, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.680 and that kept me going. Uh. And then finally, after 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.400 I finished a couple of years with Mr. Meisner, I 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.000 was looking to get a job that would show off 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.560 these talents that I had, and I finally got a 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.760 view from the bridge which is an Arthur Miller play. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.760 It was the first production of the long the long 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.399 version of that play. And it's a very great play, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.719 I have to say. And and I was and I 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.280 got that role, and I worked with Robert Daval Bobby Duval, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.840 and it just happened that Bobby Duvall was good friends 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:12.880 with Dustin Hoffman and was asked and Dusty was also 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.840 connected to this director role of gross part and he 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.879 showed up to help out with with the directing of 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.399 the piece. So I met Dustin Hoffman, you know, in 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.119 that in that time, and he saw me do some 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.720 very good work. That was the first time that I 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.760 realized that I had achieved something in the class work 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.640 and that I had found some ground, you know. And 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:41.840 it was like it was like a base to fly 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.240 from in a way. I experienced a lot of a 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.679 lot of things in that particular time period where I 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.840 learned about myself. I was very entertaining in the character 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.399 I think I was, and I was very moving and 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.480 powerful as well. So it was a great role and 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:01.280 the role that was fit to me, and I made 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.800 a mark and therefore I had, you know, a step up. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.720 Now people were going to be looking at me, and 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:09.760 that's what happened. And you've been in a ton of 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.360 successful films, you know, starting with you know, Midnight Cowboy. 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.760 That was a big break for you too, even more 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.240 recently winning a Golden Globe for the television series Raid Donovan, 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.440 Why do you think you've been able to have such 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.719 a long and sustained career when so many haven't been 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.680 able to do that? First of all, a good fortune, 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:33.359 I think, you know, I was lucky. But also there's 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.240 a little bit of a mystery to me, and it's 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:42.720 a spiritual aspect. Uh the I was in bad behavior. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.400 As I look back, and things happened to me where 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.800 I changed my perspective on things and I was lifted 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.400 from that. I was able to get it, get away 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.040 from that, and I became very connected. Although I grew 0:19:56.119 --> 0:20:00.480 up a Catholic, and when I hit New York kind 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.000 of lost that, you know, I kind of left that 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.040 behind and got in trouble with it, you know, got 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:11.040 away from this understanding of God and and the and 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.800 the rules of life and stuff, and even the examples 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.159 of my parents, who were admirable people. I lost my 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.720 way a little bit, and then I came back around 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:27.760 and Because of that, I turned into and you know, 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:33.399 a person who was devoted to God and did a 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:39.840 lot of meditation and I was able to change and 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.560 in that change many things happened that it was quite 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.879 I have some stories to tell about the mysteries of that, 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.879 But I would I would say that's the mark that 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.160 kept me going, uh, you know, giving me a lift 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:58.119 when I was very down. I said prayers, and the 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.680 prayers were answered and then ways. So so I'd say, 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.480 there's a spiritual aspect and you talk about God a lot. 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.480 And you know, right now in the country, we're saying 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:11.560 at the klient in religious affiliation over the past few years. 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.280 Do you think that's why we're having so many problems 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.320 as a country right now. Well, I would say yes, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.879 I would say yes. I would say we've lost our moorings. 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:25.560 You know, the stuff that they're feeding our children right 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:31.720 now is very disturbing. Uh. You know, there used to 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.560 be Remember there's a book everything that you need to 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.040 know you were learned in kindergarten, you know, and that 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.560 was a good book because it showed you how much 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.919 morality and and real basics for life we're taught in kindergarten. 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:52.080 Taking responsibility for yourself and all sorts of things. And 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.720 we've gotten and now the children are being given poison, 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:01.159 uh from all of these woke teachings have to say. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:06.880 And we've let our guard slip and we have to 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:14.040 recapture that ground otherwise we're we're doomed society and uh. 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:16.520 And I feel that we're starting to understand that too. 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:22.600 And that's why I you know, the last video that 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:27.919 I that I released was very strong, and I have 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.800 helped to get these videos done, you know, to do 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:36.320 these videos. But I perhaps i'd read it to you 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:39.160 and we can talk about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.040 you you know what what concerns you right now the most? 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:44.480 In taking a look at the country? You know you're 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:46.560 you're talking about. I watched the videos that you do. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.240 I know that you you tweet them out as well, sir, 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.280 and you're a very vocal conservative. What taking a look 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:55.240 at where we are right now is a nation? What 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:59.320 concerns you the most? What concerns me the most is 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:04.760 that we've we've lost our moorings and and we're being 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:12.280 overtaken by really it's it's a it's an evil that 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:16.240 is trying to overtake this country and all the greatness 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.359 of this country. Why is it that people want to 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:21.720 come to this country? Why is it that people are 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.600 breaking down, you know, our borders to get to us, 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.160 And and why is it that the people who are 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:35.280 most concerned about us are people from who have lived 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:43.719 under this this tyranny of of socialism, of communism, you know, 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:47.240 across the world, people from Poland, people from Russia, people 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:52.320 from Cuba. We're turning into a venezuela. And they see it. 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:56.880 They can see it clearly because it happened to them. 0:23:56.960 --> 0:23:59.960 They went through all of this, this horror and said 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.080 no and lost their countries. And they see the same 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:05.080 thing happened to the United States, and this was the 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:10.800 place that they came to because they needed to say 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:13.680 to get to a safe shore, they needed to get 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:17.760 to freedom, they needed to get the opportunity. And and 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:21.880 now they see that this country, too, is is falling 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:29.280 under under this evil influence. And and so that's that's 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:31.560 my concern at this time. I think we all have 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:37.679 to be very, very concerned. And and therefore I I 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:41.360 do everything I can because I've gone through a lot 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:44.880