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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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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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
