Viggo Mortensen Quotes
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
Quotes to Explore
-
You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
-
You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
-
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
-
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
-
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
-
The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
-
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
-
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
-
Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
-
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
-
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
-
Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
-
Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
-
Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
-
If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
-
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
-
There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
-
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
-
If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.
-
We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
-
I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.
-
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
-
Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
-
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
