Viggo Mortensen Quotes
Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
